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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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Bank’s Hustling AGs and Consumers on Second Mortgages

Financial Justice Foreclosure March 17, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Way back in the New York Times business section in sort of a snarky article by a ProPublica report (a nonprofit NYT outsourcer) a dangerous curtain was raised on the supposedly tough negotiations between the state attorneys general and the big banks about mortgage loan modifications.  Seems on an okey-doke, wink-and-a-nod, the deal …

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Mounting Casualties of Total War on Poor and Low Wage Workers

National Politics March 16, 2011 by wade

New Orleans In wars, if we are able and willing to endure the pain and sorrow, we can read the casualty count, virtually on a daily basis of dead and injured.  As the war drags on, as we now see in Iraq and Afghanistan, the item gets smaller and moves to the back of the …

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Japan and Katrina Call for Better Search-Survival Systems

Ideas and Issues March 15, 2011 by wade

New Orleans It is heartbreaking to read everywhere about families looking for relatives and friends in northern Japan.  An organizer in our office tells about her mother, a native of an area south of Tokyo, who is distraught trying to locate sisters and cousins who might have been working or travelling in the area.  It …

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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"

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