WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans A news item in the Washington Post caught my eye in this holiday season when buying seems mainly what it is all about sometimes. They were reporting on an interesting organizational phenomenon: Buy Nothing groups. The thumbnail sketch they provided was intriguing: What started in 2013 as a hyperlocal network of “circular gift economies” in Bainbridge Island, Wash., has …
New Orleans Leaving the Green Frog shortly before 5 AM on a Sunday in the pitch dark of San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the airport held some surprises. Google Maps was sending me directly through Centro on a different route than I had taken repeatedly over recent days. Crossing the central park next to the Cathedral, I …
San Pedro Sula Workers at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area successfully petitioned the NLRB for elections as part of the SEIU’s Service Workers Union. The company fought ferociously, and it’s a long way from over, but the results of the first elections are now in. The union won in one store outright by more than 2 …