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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: April 2018

Welfare, Just the Facts, Ma’am

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 30, 2018 by digital

New Orleans     Trump’s aides in trying to explain the president’s feelings about cutting away more of what is left of the safety net including food stamps and housing subsidies as well as his support for work requirements on those programs and Medicaid say that he calls them all “welfare,” a word that he sees as …

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Taking Class to Class

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 29, 2018April 30, 2018 by digital

St. Petersburg       While talking to former ACORN organizers and canvassers, long departed staff, and regular folks with sundry ideas and aspirations after the Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida where THE ORGANIZER had shown, thoughts kept rattling in the back of my mind from my radio interview on Wade’s World with Betsy Leondar-Wright, her …

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The War on the Poor is about Hate Not Economics

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues April 27, 2018 by digital

New Orleans     Lucky thing I don’t have the big head, or I would think the folks running the editorial pages for the Times were reading my blogs.  How could it be coincidence that today, just as an example, one editorial quotes me almost exactly, and Paul Krugman, the columnist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

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