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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: November 2005

Government Falling

Ideas and Issues International November 30, 2005 by wade

Vancouver      Snow was falling as I hit Vancouver. That’s rare in this coastal city. The federal government had fallen as well. That’s more common. Roy MacGregor, a columnist in the Globe and Mall, told a story about Ken Duff in Ottawa Centre, who upon hearing the news posted a sign on his property saying the …

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Trailer Search Saga

ACORN Labor Organizing Personal Writings November 29, 2005 by wade

Shreveport      Finally after three months unable to live in your own home and abandoning home of a FEMA trailer, you take action rationalizing that at the worst you will have something over your head, a way to live while working, something to put out at the camp construction, or maybe someday a way to take …

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Stealing in Broad Daylight

Community Organizing Financial Justice Ideas and Issues November 27, 2005 by wade

New Orleans     One could become cynical, but in New Orleans this just all goes under the category of “bought lessons” and hard realities. Eleven weeks out from the hurricane as so little happens and the housing stock continues to sink into the now grey and lifeless ground with the rains soon to follow and worse to …

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