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".
Lyon At the Voter Purge Project, we keep hoping secretaries of state around the United States have sort of learned their lesson. We don’t really believe that, but given how difficult it is to convince people that constant monitoring and tedious database care is essential to protect voter lists, we’re always hoping the …
Lyon I was dragging wagon arriving in Lyon, France after an overnight flight from the USA, and then a train, all adding up to more than 24 hours of travel. Going down the escalator from the train platform, there was Adrien Roux, the head organizer of ACORN’s affiliate, the Alliance Citoyenne, now renamed Justice …
Washington, DC Workers are under assault in some many ways these days, both domestically and internationally, that it’s easy to forget that nothing has really been “fixed” when it comes to the precarious status of so-called gig workers. Are they independent free agents, free to come and go, and not under the thumb of …