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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: March 2012

Delicious Ironies: Tea Party Groups and Tax Exemptions

Ideas and Issues National Politics March 16, 2012March 16, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    You just have to love the irony of the government bashing, back-to-the-basics, tri-corner hat wearing Tea-people now lining up at the whining wall to weep about the fact that the Internal Revenue Service is not bending over backwards to give them tax exemptions by joining the pretend party that somehow their purposes are …

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Last Door Slamming at Goldman Sachs and Wall Street

Ideas and Issues March 15, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Dear New York Times Public Editor:  Is it really news, if it is “news” about your own op-ed, which was a letter to the editor, and is still “news about nothing?”  A mid-level executive pulling down 1% money of between $500K and $750K at the giant Wall Street mega-firm Goldman Sachs writes a …

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The Decline of the California Model of Union Organizing

Ideas and Issues March 14, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   A funny thing happened to this piece on the way to the journal, New Labor Forum.  Invited by the book review editors to do an essay that started as Working for Justice: The LA Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Editors:  Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro (ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2010), …

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