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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 2019

What Do We Do with Julian Assange Now?

Ideas and Issues April 11, 2019April 12, 2019 by digital

New Orleans     Julian Assange has been arrested by the British police on an old warrant from 2012 as a bail jumper as well as on an extradition order from the United States for hacking offenses.  This wasn’t your usual cheap motel out in the countryside pgoerp walk, but in what has to rank as …

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Houses aren’t Homes for the Flippers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 10, 2019May 4, 2020 by digital

New Orleans       No matter how much sugar they put in your coffee, be very prepared to be worried about an additional trend in corporate housing speculation:  flipping is back, bad and hard! In a contradictory, “what me worry,” “how can this be bad” story in the Wall Street Journal the reporter noted that the …

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Inclusionary Zoning Lite and Little

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 9, 2019April 10, 2019 by digital

New Orleans     Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …

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