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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: December 2006

No Family Values: Immigrants Catch-22

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues December 2, 2006 by wade

San Francisco    To open up the Tides Network (www.tides.org) board meetings Drummond Pike, the master of these ceremonies, had invited a guest, ACORN’s long time friend and ally from Los Angeles, Angelica Salas, the director of CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (www.chirla.org ). Angelica and her team had been important in …

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Wal-Mart and Bharti on the India Sneak

International WalMart December 1, 2006 by wade

San Francisco    Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …

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