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 The following is my guest blog on the Working Class Perspectives site run by Professor Sherry Linkon of Georgetown and Professor John Russo, formerly of Youngstown State University in Ohio and now visiting scholar with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor, also at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The federal minimum …
Charlotte I always make a mental note on my last work-trip of the year. As usual, it’s for the ACORN Canada Year End/Year Beginning meeting. After a multi-year run through cities largely in the Midwest, we’re all heading for Montreal. Somehow, it’s appropriate to offer some travel tips at this point in a year where …
Brussels Leaving Grenoble we jumped on the tram to then take the train to Paris, once there hopped onto the Metro to switch between the Lyon station and the Paris North station, grabbed another train to Brussels, disembarked to a local tram near the station until our directions said turn right at the corner when …