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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: May 2004

Citywide Minimum Wage Standards

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing May 31, 2004 by wade

Santa Fe: Living wage campaigns have been at the forefront of all of our strategies for progressive economic development for the last decade almost.  Of the 100 or so ordinances that have been won at the city or county level, the vast majority have been essentially “prevailing wage” measures.  The building trades virtually created the notion …

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Home Child Care Workers Partnership

ACORN Community Organizing Labor Organizing May 28, 2004October 3, 2021 by wade

Los Angeles: Sometimes small steps can take us great distances, and a meeting one night this week in California was an example of just that. Almost twenty organizers from ACORN and from the Service Employees International Union who had been working separately from San Diego to Sacramento met together to start the hard work of figuring …

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Prison is a State of Mind

Ideas and Issues International May 21, 2004 by wade

          New Orleans   I can not get over this mayhem we have created in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.  I am not sure any of us should ever get over it.  There are very few times when — in all honesty — one finds it embarrassing to be an American, but this is absolutely one …

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