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".
Tokyo The world is getting smaller, but waking up early to run, then taking a bus at 9 AM to Incheon, then flying from Incheon to Tokyo at noon and from there at 4 PM to Los Angeles to arrive at 945 AM on Saturday and finally to New Orleans by 525 PM, still …
Changwon We were meeting in a large auditorium in the new Labor Department building in Changwon. The administrator noted in his closing remarks that we were essentially inaugurating the “hall” as the first big event to be held there. More that 50 people sat attentively from the opening bell before 2 PM until 6:45 PM …
Seoul Korea has had an excellent set of labor legislation, providing good protections. They were too good perhaps in the view of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which made gutting some of them a condition for bailout loans during the financial crisis here. It turns out that part of the impetus behind my …