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 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 …
San Pedro Sula No matter how many times we had gone over the dates for the annual general meeting of ACORN Honduras or doublechecked the time of the meeting, where I would pick up the San Pedro Sula delegates, and when they would be in the central park, don’t ever think with our language barriers that …