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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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Job Training for Workers in the Gig Economy Era

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 12, 2018 by digital

New Orleans    An interesting question came from the audience after watching “The Organizer” in Santa Fe.  A gentleman asked what ACORN was doing and what was our thinking about job training programs these days.  I basically answered that federal monies were being cutback in job training, but for the most part there seemed to be …

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Fighting Back the Fear of Voter Registration

ACORN Community Organizing Organizing February 11, 2018February 12, 2018 by digital

Santa Fe     After watching the “The Organizer” and hearing questions at the Santa Fe Film Festival, several of us were having lunch, and invariably as these things go, we were following up on the follow up questions, most interestingly about the need for a return to robust voter registration efforts along the line hallmarked by …

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Updates on Banks as Criminal Enterprises: More Wells Fargo Mess

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 6, 2018 by digital

New Orleans   The old adage that “what goes around, comes around” applies nicely to Wells Fargo, long in our experience one of the pariahs of banking and a shameless purveyor of predatory products and lending, long a target of ACORN campaigns.  Recent years have seen their corrupt culture begin to catch up with the San …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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