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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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People Want to Talk about Squatting

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 21, 2018May 22, 2018 by digital

Oakland    Over the last several days of screening THE ORGANIZER, I’ve noticed something interesting that is piquing peoples’ interest more and more about the movie.  Our friends in Bulgaria translated the movie so that they could run captions in their language at a screening in Sofia, and I skyped in for the Q&A.  Again, in …

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The Racism and Rural-Urban Divide Behind Work Requirement Exemptions

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 18, 2018 by digital

New Orleans   Imposing work requirements to punish the poor seems to be spreading like a virus around the country.  It’s an ugly, mean spirited kind of thing, but a closer look at the way state politicians are trying to carve out exemptions to these requirements reveals even more about the self-serving blindness behind the exemptions …

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Bringing Our People to the Graduation Line – Go Pounce!

ACORN May 17, 2018 by digital

New Orleans     What is “pounce?”  I actually know, because I’ve spent time over a bunch of years in the downtown campus of Georgia State University.  This blue panther head seems to be everywhere around the sprawling and expanding downtown campus.  Walking from the parking lots up and down the hills in Atlanta near the capitol …

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