While in today’s Greece the need to organize the working people appears more imperative than ever, the documentary The Organizer (2018) presents an historic figure of the American Left who devoted his life to this purpose. The activist and author Wade Rathke, on whom the documentary is focussed, will talk with us after the film on

Organizing the Poor in the USA, 1968-2018

Friday, October12^th, 18.30-21.00

Hall A, Law Faculty ground floor, University Campus AUTh

An open discussion, coordinated by Spyros Marchetos, will follow.

Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International, as well as Local 100 United Labor Unions. He is the publisher of Social Policy magazine, and he has written many books on issues of labour organizing and history. He served as the Chief Organizer of ACORN for 39 years. Also, he has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning social justice, workers’ rights, and a democracy where “the people shall rule”. In the long tradition of workers’ organizers in the USA, and also based on personal and group experience, he developed original organizing methods. ACORN became the biggest mass organisation in American history, numbering more than a million members in its heyday. It was systematically attacked by the American Right for helping the poor to vote. It had supported Bill and Hilary Clinton, as well as Barack Obama, in the first stages of their careers, while they presented a radical face and had not yet changed their politics in favour of big capital and militarism. Since Obama’s election it does not support the Democratic Party.

For more info please contact  organisingthepoor@yandex.ru