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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: August 2010

Radio Silence in Rock Creek, Goodbye Glenn Beck!

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings August 5, 2010August 5, 2010 by wade

Helena Driving across Wyoming and Montana is a homecoming as memories and mountains swallowed 50 feet of truck and trailer, family and friends, as we gulped in the view, cool dry air, and good company.  At lunch we lived a highlight reel as old comrades and friends, Pat Sweeny of WORC (Western Organization of Resource …

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Bank of America’s Countrywide Mess Continues

Financial Justice Foreclosure August 4, 2010August 4, 2010 by wade

Sheridan I’ll be honest.  I may be missing some of the news, since I’m spending the daylight hours pulling a post-Katrina trailer to Montana, but can it really be possible that a $624 million dollar settlement on yet more of the Countrywide fiascos has literally attracted virtually zero notice in the news?   This $624 Million …

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New Century: “Drinking My Own Kool-Aid”

ACORN Foreclosure August 3, 2010 by wade

Denver New Century Financial Corporation dead in the heart of Orange County, which used to be subprime central, was the canary in the mine that not enough people heard as their demise ushered in the great meltdown for home buyers and mortgage holders.  The other day a piece in the Los Angeles Times noted that …

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