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".
May 26, 2021 Little Rock My daughter once assured me that podcasts would “change my life.” My response has largely been, “yeah, sure,” but I think I’m ready to jump on the learning curve. Rolling from Atlanta to Little Rock as part of my monthly route is a schlep, and it’s made more so by …
ACORN Founder and Chief Organizer Wade Rathke was recently featured in two NPR news articles. In the first interview, Wade speaks with NPR reporter Stephan Bisaha about the process of starting a campaign to unionize, and why exactly it’s so difficult to win against big employers. In the second, after the union vote has been …
New Orleans It’s hard not to wonder about the mixed messages of popular culture about the huge divides between rich and poor when all of the happy endings seem to go the other way for the rich, including the amoral rip-off artists and scammers. The new movie by Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall …