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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 2018

Let the Children Lead Us on Guns

Ideas and Issues March 15, 2018March 16, 2018 by digital

Toronto   According the Wall Street Journal, more than one-million students walked out of their classes to commemorate the lives of seventeen, mostly fellow students, killed by gunfire in Florida only weeks ago.  The national map of where students undertook the seventeen-minute strike showed clearly that these actions were distributed throughout the country in hundreds and …

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Discrimination in Health Care Delivery Kills

Health Care Ideas and Issues March 14, 2018 by digital

New Orleans    These are the days when it seems that if it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all.  Today’s examples emerge from the swamp where we should find our saviors, the health care delivery system, its doctor priests, and its industrial hospitals. More and more I don’t just hear the …

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Banks, Too Big to Fail, but Too Small to Regulate, Huh?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 by digital

Biloxi     Once upon a time in America, and much of the world, there was a reliable way to identify a populist.  The litmus test was their view of banks.  If they saw them as somewhere between a criminal enterprise and a bunch of blood suckers, then the odds were good that they were populists.  If …

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