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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: July 2013

The Changing Scenery of the West

Ideas and Issues July 31, 2013August 1, 2013 by digital

Kansas City   From Missoula, Montana to New Orleans is a long haul, more than 2200 miles.  It’s not something I recommend doing every year, but every once in a while it’s good to see what’s happening out there in America.  Having made it as far as my uncle’s in Kansas City, means we’ve traveled across …

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Richmond’s Takes Charge of Foreclosures

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure July 31, 2013 by digital

Kansas City     Richmond, California  became the first city in the country to take charge of the foreclosure crisis, lingering since 2007,  by using its powers of eminent domain to force the hands of the banks to renegotiate the mortgages to market value. As it happens, this issue of Social Policy  leads with a great …

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Why Not a Lyme Victims Association?

Ideas and Issues Organizing July 29, 2013 by digital

Rock Creek     Sitting around the cooking area on Rock Creek, the subject of Lyme disease came up quickly, and there was a good reason for that.   Partly, folks were talking about a fairly recent article in The New Yorker that almost all of us had read.  The article was one of those maddening, though painfully …

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