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".
May 14, 2021 New York City I’m not going to say that I’m unfamiliar with co-working spaces, although I will say that I have never taken them particularly seriously. I’ve been an old-school real office or no office guy, black-and-white with little gray in-between. Certainly, our office was in a co-working space in Sheffield, England …
May 8, 2021 New Orleans It was fun talking to Stephen Preskill about his new book, Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice, on Wade’s World. The pleasure was as much about Preskill’s discussion of the book and his research, as it was bringing back memories of the …
March 25, 2021 Little Rock The Amazon warehouse election that is voting by mail ballots now in Bessemer, Alabama has brought a lot of attention to the labor movement, its current standing and future prospects. President Biden stepped up front to support workers’ rights to organize and the value of union membership and on-the-job protection, …