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".
June 16, 2021 San Francisco Talking to a longtime colleague and friend yesterday in the Mission in San Francisco, where pockets are still stubbornly trying to resist gentrification, invariably the conversation settled quickly into the Amazon watch, and we’re not talking about rainforest, unless that means the tech empire where money currently seems to be …
New Orleans You can’t make this stuff up. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world with an estimated worth of about $140 billion, more than some small countries. Born in Albuquerque 55 years ago and raised in Houston he founded Amazon in the mid-1990s, and, shebang, twenty-five years later he’s …
New Orleans The first shots are being fired in a workplace battleground where workers have been living the myth that their status was protected and their bosses were their protectors. Modern technology, tech companies, and perhaps even the government are on the verge of completing the process of turning white collar workers into blue collar …