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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".

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Wikileaks Complex Financial and Organizational Structure

Ideas and Issues October 26, 2010October 26, 2010 by wade

New Orleans I realize this might seem to be a contrarian position, but as an organizer I totally understand – and support — the complex and intricate structure devised by Julian Assange and his associates at Wikileaks.  I realize there is some uproar and even internal dissension among the Wikileakers about some of the decisions …

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Sean Parker & Mark Zuckerberg in Social Network

ACORN Ideas and Issues October 25, 2010 by wade

New Orleans I was totally fried after being on the road for 27 out of 31 days in Vietnam, India, and Canada.  I had shin splits and a pulled muscle on my right leg that made soft chairs and plane seats constantly painful.  I had nothing that could be called a sleep schedule anymore.  If …

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Raising the British Columbia Minimum Wage

Financial Justice International Labor Organizing October 24, 2010October 24, 2010 by wade

Vancouver Even as the regional leaders of the BCGEU were strategizing with me on Friday morning about living wage campaigns in their cities and raising the minimum wage in British Columbia, according to the Prince George Free Press the local City Council had reneged on a pledge made in 2007 to the support an increase …

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