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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 2011

John Sayles and “Amigo” Doing it His Way

Ideas and Issues November 15, 2011 by wade

New Orleans John Sayles is a filmmaker with some skills and some politics.  I had read his book, Union Dues, and his famous short story about the Anarchist Convention years ago and like them.  I had watched some of his historical dramas like Matewan, a great movie about a rough coal strike,  Lone Star with …

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Props to Barnes & Nobel’s Leo Riggio from New Orleans!

Rebuild New Orleans November 15, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong, and in this case, I’m glad to not only say it, but offer some heartfelt praise to Leo Riggio of Barnes & Noble and family for having done the right thing for the right reasons in the right way for the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans in …

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Sad Saturday on the Gridiron

Ideas and Issues November 14, 2011November 14, 2011 by wade

New Orleans I had a friend a couple of years ago who told me that he had simply stopped reading the sports pages of the paper, because, essentially what was the point, and as he told me, he couldn’t believe the time he was saving.  I have thought about that comment repeatedly in recent days …

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