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".
Pearl River Thanks to Working Class Perspectives for allowing me to write this Labor Day post on reflections on the future of labor unions and our movement: The Unanswered Question about the Future of US Labor Unions Within six months the two men who have led the AFL-CIO for more than twenty-five years, John J. …
Pearl River: Thanks to the Stansbury Forum, a website for labor organizers and activists, for asking me to do this long post for them on other ways of looking at organizing Amazon. This is Part I of four Parts. Amazon? There Has to be a Better Way Amazon, we have a problem! Jeff Bezos may …
Pearl River We got lucky. We took a chance and left Natchez, Mississippi, where we had sheltered, and bet that despite the Katrina anniversary horrors wrought by Ida, that we might be alright near the Pearl River on the Mississippi border. The odds were all in our favor. We had cameras at the camp …