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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: October 2006

Low Wage Worker Battlegrounds

ACORN Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings October 25, 2006 by wade

New Orleans        We are on the countdown now.  Having toiled in the vineyards almost two years in the wake of the surprising statewide minimum wage increase victory in Florida in 2004, we are now almost to “raise day” for low wage workers on November 7th in Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri.  Our avowed enemies even …

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A New Business Model for Wal-Mart?

Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings WalMart October 24, 2006 by wade

 New Orleans       Wall Street analysts need to put our WARN (www.warnwalmart.org) on speed dial.  Reading the Wall Street Journal over the last week, as they speculated on whether or not big investors could convince the company to concentrate on “same store” sales and other stock enhancements, we could have told them in advance that Wal-Mart …

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Labor’s Cutting Edge?

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

Little Rock        For the 19th time leaders and staff of SEIU Local 100 (www.seiu100.org) headquartered in New Orleans but with organizers also in Arkansas and Texas and SEIU Local 880 based in Chicago but now with members in every nook and cranny of Illinois and expanding operations in Indiana and soon Kansas, came together in …

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