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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".

Category: ACORN

Judge Orders Permanent Injunction to Block ACORN Defunding

ACORN Ideas and Issues March 11, 2010March 11, 2010 by wade

Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides.  Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly veiled …

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Shooting Straight as Pressure Increases

ACORN Financial Justice Health Care Rebuild New Orleans March 8, 2010March 8, 2010 by wade

Washington It’s not spring here, but finally there is a briskness in peoples’ step.  Tomorrow there is a major rally for heath care reform called by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and on Sunday, March 21st, the forces in favor of comprehensive immigration reform are rallying, praying, and marching on the Mall, hopefully with …

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Texas Told You So on TXU Private Equity Rip Off

ACORN Financial Justice March 4, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Less than three years ago in 2007 we were all fighting tooth-and-nail to try to stop the big beef of private equity KKR with Henry Kravis, Texas Pacific with David Bonderman, and Goldman Sachs with most of the western world from doing a crazy $50 billion purchase of TXU, the giant public utility, …

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