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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: April 2008

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Ideas and Issues Personal Writings April 3, 2008 by wade

Pescadero     Emmett Aluli and I bolted down lunch to trudge through the dunes to the cliffs along the coast and finally scramble down along the rocks when we thought we finally saw first one elephant seal’s head popping up in the surf and then another much closer coming up and then submerging into the …

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Citing the Source

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings April 2, 2008 by wade

Pescadero      The Tides Network, including the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, is in retreat here some 30 miles south of Half Moon Bay, the port of choice for Sir Francis Drake on his voyage of exploration (i.e. piracy!) hundreds of years ago. Cell phones and blackberrys don’t work though I have an …

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Tennessee Williams Festival

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 1, 2008 by wade

Half-Moon Bay     Let me share an experience out of the ordinary for me at least and that was being on a panel among the literary lions at the annual Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The panel was titled “American Problems, Southern Solutions” after the recently published Tony Dunbar edited volume to which several …

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