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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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Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World

Organizing February 18, 2011 by wade

Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to make the point about unions, even weakened and beleaguered, and the vital role they are playing around the world in standing up …

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Green Grows in Mexico City

Ideas and Issues February 17, 2011February 17, 2011 by wade

Mexico City Walking from a meeting at the Universidad Obrera de Mexico (UOM), passing by the Zocalo at the center of the city with the Cathedral on my right, I did a double take at the long green line of fancy pedi-cabs lined up along street.  Drivers stood wiping off the dust on their green …

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Obama Trapping Right on Fannie

Ideas and Issues February 16, 2011February 16, 2011 by wade

Mexico City My money says that if Treasury Secretary Geithner is designated to make the announcement on the Administration’s future plans for the housing finance mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it should be understood as a message directly to Wall Street and the housing industry, and therefore indirectly to the Republicans and the …

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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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