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".
Kingston The last several days it feels like I have been reliving the organizing we did through the Wal-Mart Workers Association and WARN (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now) from 2004 through 2008, largely in central Florida and California. That experience was the heart of the discussion with our brothers on the national Steelworkers staff and …
It was a bumpy flight into Toronto with gray skies and rain everywhere, clearing occasionally so the changing leaves could plop down. The weather was, well, Canadian! Somehow we made it on time to our annual “check-in” meeting with the national staff of the Canadian district of the Steelworkers. It was sad to learn that …
Prague New countries, new languages, and new people seem constantly in front of me on this trip, but what is surprising whether here in Prague, Rome, Palermo, Cairo, or back home in the United States is how very, very similar the questions are everywhere in the world for progressives trying to create real change and …