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Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International as well as United Labor Unions Local 100 and the Publisher of Social Policy magazine. Wade is also the founder, and served as the Chief Organizer of ACORN for 39 years. He has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning …

Essential, but so What?

            New Orleans      Working Class Perspectives gave me the honor of the Labor Day blog again this year, so it’s a pleasure to share it with you, while hoping you remember the value of labor on this day of recognition. Essential Workers Take Action             During the pandemic, the working class that had been …

Co-op Bread and Circuses Don’t Substitute for Membership Democracy

            Marble Falls     Whoops, we must have kicked a hornet’s nest.  Seems like there’s a wakeup call moving around the backwoods and country roads that’s starting to be heard all over.  Some people are demanding that rural electric cooperatives pay more attention to where they source their power, whether they determine their rates in …