The Organizer (2017)
101 min
THE ORGANIZER is a portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of the much maligned and misunderstood occupation - community organizing. Before it's infamous demise following several highly publicized scandals, ACORN had been the largest community organization in the US. Rathke, a former anti-war and welfare rights organizer founded the organization in Little Rock in 1970 and over the next decades shepherded its growth into a national political powerhouse for the poor. His entrepreneurial vision helped build ACORN but internal conflict and external pressures would lead to its tragic downfall. Undeterred, Rathke is now building new organizations around the world and trying to rebuild at home. With a wealth of archives and interviews, THE ORGANIZER is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy and always controversial job of building power for the powerless.
- Release date
- October 12, 2017
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- Wade Rathke as Self - Founder of ACORN
- Diné Butler as Self - Organizer
- Dan Cantor as Self - National Director, Working Families Party
- Noam Chomsky as Self - Professor & Activist
- Marshall Ganz as Self - Organizer & Academic
- Frances Fox Piven as Self - City University of New York
- Bill Pastreich as Self - Organizer
- Johnnie Pugh as Self - Community Leader, Little Rock
- Gary Delgado as Self - Organizer
- Toney Orr as Self - Organizer
Crew
- Nick Taylor · Director
- Nick Taylor · Writer
- Joey Carey · Producer
- Ohad Benchetrit · Composer
- Justin Small · Composer
- Joey Carey · Cinematographer
- Nick Taylor · Cinematographer
- Nick Taylor · Editor