Wade Rathke is the Chief Organizer of ACORN International, Founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN (1970-2008), and Founder and Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union.
The views expressed on this website are his own.
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January 5, 2009
By Wade Rathke
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Financial Meltdown Coherence
New Orleans Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard ... [more] Comments (1)
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January 3, 2009
By Wade Rathke
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Tactical Watch: A Different Drumbeat
New Orleans The New York State Court of Appeals concluded several months that the drumming being done by SEIU 32B-J on plastic containers, pots, and cans in front of the Empire State Building was neither pre-empted by federal labor law nor seemingly part of their ... [more] Comments (0)
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January 2, 2009
By Wade Rathke
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New Year’s Resolutions
January 2, 2009
New Orleans I actually believe in New Year’s Resolutions. Foolishly, I try to sell family members, co-workers, and others on the power of fresh resolve and conviction in the face of a new year, and note grudgingly how my advocacy seems to take here. Years ago I used to convince my immediate tribe to take an annual bike ride in the c... [more] Comments (1)
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December 31, 2008
By Wade Rathke
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Coty Simmons and the Mean Streets
Antigua We were all stunned by a shattering re-pressurization for entry back into the States, our work, and life in our city – New Orleans. We had heard the night before from friends and then read on-line in the Times-Picayune that Coty Simmons’ had died along with her unborn child. She was all of 20 yea... [more] Comments (0)
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December 30, 2008
By Wade Rathke
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Acatenango and the Majesty of Mountains
Antigua Vacations are a time for family, recharging, and getting ready for the year to come. Every once in a while they are also a time for learning something as well or at least being reminded of things that are perhaps too easy to forget.
&nbs... [more] Comments (0)
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December 29, 2008
By Wade Rathke
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Housing Blame Game
Antigua Reading one story after another as reporters and others try to play the “blame game” for the current economic crises pointing first one way and then another, is getting boring. They are blasting with a shotgun and hoping to finally hit something and someone, since they really are clueless where they should aim.
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