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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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Cairo Excitement and Challenges for Organizers’ Forum

Organizers Forum September 24, 2011 by wade

Paris We have a big, diverse and significant delegation traveling with the Organizers’ Forum for our 10th International Dialogue, this time in Cairo.  We are all in the air moving across the time zones now with great anticipation to meet with our counterparts and get a sense of the social changes and revolution everywhere in …

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Sixty Day Delay for Low Wage Whiners Resisting Living Wages

Labor Organizing September 23, 2011 by wade

New Orleans This is embarrassing, but not surprising.  A last ditch lawsuit filed by a bunch of bottom fishing, low wage employers in the Louisiana seafood, forestry, sugar, and hotel and amusement park industries, won a 60-day delay from the US Department of Labor preventing fair and living wages from being paid to the more …

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Keeping Up to Date on Slavery, Yes, Slavery!

International September 22, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Yes, I know many of you believe that slavery ended almost 150 years ago in an American-centric view of the world, but it’s a big world, and shockingly simple to exploit people by having them work for free, which is what slavery is all about.  The US State Department estimates there are 27, …

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