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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: March 2006

Michigan Raises Minimum Wage!

Community Organizing Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing March 29, 2006 by wade

New Orleans       Governor Jennifer Granholm made some important history for lower wage workers in Michigan by signing a bill to raise the minimum wage in that state.  The Republican controlled legislature had gotten the message — loud and clear — that a signature drive being conducted by ACORN and labor allies was likely to be …

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Immigrant Protest Eruption

ACORN Community Organizing International March 27, 2006 by wade

New York    The first surprise was the reports from Chicago two weeks ago, where Chicago ACORN had turned out our members and found themselves part of a swelling crowd of nearly 300,000 people on March 10th. As the immigrant criminalization bills continued to advance towards hearings in DC, the protests seemed to gain force. Over …

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Cost of Homelessness?

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings March 23, 2006 by wade

San Francisco    It took a long time for me to acquire the New Yorker habit. It was colorless, East Coast, preppie affectation by gawd, and I was having nothing to do with it.     Over time things changed. I was buying John McPhee books and loving them, and I could read his stuff there first. …

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