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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 2007

PipeVine

Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings November 27, 2007 by wade

San Francisco This is an interesting case in the non-profit world, and the decision has ramifications, though perhaps not exactly the ones that some might draw from the facts. PipeVine was a company created by the United Way of the Bay Area (UWBA) in 2000 to collect workplace donations made by employees and then to …

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Integrity of the tie

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings November 26, 2007 by wade

New Orleans     My household is not a huge fan of college football. My son represents in this area and watches the local teams with his grandfather pretty regularly. We don’t have a working TV downstairs so there is no tradition of watching football on Thanksgiving Day in the way that I can remember from …

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Border Lands

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings November 25, 2007 by wade

New Orleans        As a post-turkey break and some relief from being a witness to the LSU-Arkansas game, watched in the midst of all of our Arkansas family, the son and I snuck off to the movies to see No Country for Old Men made by the Coen brothers (Fargo fame) based on the book …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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