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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: May 2011

Releasing Carlos Slim’s Stranglehold on Mexico

ACORN International International May 9, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Spending any day in Mexico City with Suyapa Amador, head organizer of ACORN Mexico, involves at least one and sometimes two and three stops at local stores to buy minutes for her cell phone.  Thanks to the virtual monopoly that Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil owned by gazillionaire Carlos Slim Helu, not …

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Mortenson, Krakauer, and Three Cups of Deceit

ACORN International May 8, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose.  I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another side …

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The Loan from Malcolm X’s Sister

Ideas and Issues May 6, 2011May 6, 2011 by wade

New Orleans It is interesting how sometimes it is the little things that make such a huge difference.   Reading Malcolm X:  A Life of Reinvention I was struck by what might seem the smallest of insignificant details that turned out to impact certainly Malcolm’s life and perhaps had an impact of millions. In the midst …

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