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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".

Month: April 2004

Getting the Earned Income Tax Credit

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice April 17, 2004 by wade

Seattle & New Orleans: Tax day finally passed, and we were in it up to our ears this year!  A casual conversation with Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation based in Seattle, Beth Rosales of the same, Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation, and myself over lunch in the rain a little more than …

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Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International April 15, 2004 by wade

Vancouver: A tip on a boat in high waves last year, trying to make it from Cortez Island to Vancouver Island to fly back and then home, led me to the Sylvia Hotel, a good enough, older house, which becomes fantastic because its location is hard by the beach at English Bay and right next to …

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Pulling Together the Community Leadership Centre

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing Organizer Training April 13, 2004 by wade

Vancouver     Coming down the hill towards the water, trees on each side were bursting in pinks and reds providing fresh color to a typically cool and damp, gray day in beautiful Vancouver.  I have been in this city a number of times in the last year since I first visited with David Levi and John …

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