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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: December 2020

Voter Suppression Unmasked and Undaunted

Ideas and Issues December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 by digital

December 30, 2020 Pearl River     What’s the saying, “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride….” The old Scottish nursing rhyme harkens to the days when the differences between the rich and poor might be a matter of transportation. The line came to me as I began reading a recent New York Times article that catalogued …

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Hey, Congress, Lay Off ACORN Already

Ideas and Issues December 29, 2020 by digital

December 29, 2020 Pearl River     Good news! The still President, or as some call him the President-Unelect Donald Trump, went to sign his golf card in Florida and toady South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham slipped the latest $900 billion coronavirus relief bill to him instead, and, wham-bam, relief finally came. Well, maybe not exactly like …

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Black Lives Matter, the Tides Foundation, and the Future

Ideas and Issues December 29, 2020 by digital

December 28, 2020  Pearl River     The Black Lives Matter movement erupted after the killing of George Floyd, as demonstrations, perhaps as many as 8500, occurred throughout the country and the world. BLM, prior to the Minneapolis uprising, was a loosely-knit, unstructured, network of local chapters with a somewhat leaderless structure nationally. In many ways that …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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