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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 2017

Lesson from New Orleans Flooding: Money Matters

Ideas and Issues August 12, 2017August 14, 2017 by digital

New Orleans    Rolling from the dry of central Wyoming to the humid of New Orleans always takes a little climatic adjustment, but it’s not a bad thing. The weather forecast says rain and thunderstorms are expected daily throughout the week. The same prediction has been largely fulfilled over the last week. In New Orleans, this …

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Props to John Cain, the Hard Rock Underneath the Voice of the People

Ideas and Issues August 11, 2017August 14, 2017 by digital

New Orleans The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette did a special feature profile on John Cain, the program director of 100,000 watt, noncommerical, KABF in Little Rock. John has been the hard rock foundation on which the “voice of the people” station has been built. Worth remembering him and KABF during their quarterly pledge drive. He’s one of …

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Using ACORN as the Smokescreen for Voter Suppression

ACORN August 10, 2017August 11, 2017 by digital

Salina, KN   Here’s a change of pace while we’re wending out way from Wyoming dry lands to Louisiana wetland. A piece by John Atlas and Peter Drier ran in Salon that is worth sharing it seems to me to get some context in what is now contemporary history of voter suppression since this pig is …

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