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".
Listening without Hearing Langely Park, Maryland Working with national and local groups seeking to advance the cause of comprehensive immigration reform, one of the ideas was to organize “Obama Watch” parties to allow folks to listen Obama’s Inaugural Address to see if they heard more specifics on his frequent campaign promises to advance immigration …
Living Wages in Japan New Orleans We had a very interesting visit with labor researchers and professors from Japan about the prospects for a living wage movement in their country and the lessons we had learned, particularly in New Orleans from the joint labor and community campaigns here. In the complicated translations it seems …
Hopes for Peace Washington I had been trying to visit with Medea Benjamin off and on as I have been coming to Washington in recent months in order to get her advice. She was a co-founder of Global Exchange more than 20 years ago, and someone who certainly knows her way around the world. …