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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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With the Movement in Arizona

Ideas and Issues Immigration Reform Uncategorized May 30, 2010May 30, 2010 by wade

Phoenix Talking briefly with Pablo Alvarado, head of NDLON, and Salvador Reza, perhaps the principal spark plug behind the march and rally to block implementation of SB 1070, the racial  profiling, anti-immigrant law that is scheduled to be implemented in two months, I asked how it was looking and what they were hoping for.  Salvador …

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Weeping Foreclosure Victims

Citizen Wealth Foreclosure Organizing May 29, 2010 by wade

Phoenix We were sitting in the living room in the special, quiet, deep heat of a Phoenix afternoon visiting with the women of three generations of the Roman family. No fan or air conditioner or street noise could be heard at the end of the cul de sac on Pasadena Street. The silence was only …

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O’Keefe and Pranksters Guilty with Hand Slap

ACORN Ideas and Issues May 28, 2010 by wade

Houston James O’Keefe, the delusional, self-aggrandizer, copped a plea with his young, right wing buddies for the weird caper at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans where it is still difficult to fathom what in the heck the boys were really hoping to do with this half-baked idea. They pleaded guilty to misdemeanors with …

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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)

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