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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 2005

Making History for Home Childcare Workers

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing April 8, 2005 by wade

Chicago:  Ballots have been in the mail for the last several weeks to 49000 home childcare workers in Illinois in one of the largest union representation elections ever conducted in the United States.  Our sister local and one of the pillars of the ACORN family of organizations, SEIU Local 880, is on the ballot and …

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Roseanne

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Personal Writings April 5, 2005 by wade

New Orleans:  From what they were telling me on Saturday morning in the office, full of the excitement of the night before, a call had come into New Orleans from ACORN’s office in Washington saying there was a table’s worth of free tickets for ACORN members from New Orleans at Roseanne’s show at the nearby …

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