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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: July 2005

Common Clothing Comes to ACORN

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues July 5, 2005 by wade

Pittsburgh:  After 35 years it had to happen, first with small steps and now with a big leap, the ACORN Executive Board continued to move forward with great excitement in its endorsement of common clothing to send a message into communities around the world of ACORN that seeing a red shirt with the ACORN logo …

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Organizing the Biggest and Baddest — the Wal-Mart Challenge

Labor Organizing WalMart July 5, 2005 by wade

New Orleans: As the debate concerning labor’s future rages on, prodded by Andy Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and answered by one union after another, President Sweeney has agreed on the need for debate and the need to form committees to discuss the various proposals generated.   Workers in general and union …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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