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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: Citizen Wealth

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Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Immigration Reform September 8, 2009 by wade

San Francisco A 6 AM flight from NOLA and hours circumnavigating the Bay because of the Bay Bridge repairs on a beautifully sunny Sunday from airport to Benicia Bookshop for Citizen Wealth to Tides Momentum Conference at the chic W in downtown left me dragging wagon until the JBL Award winners had their chance to …

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Working Poor Catch a Break

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Town Hall September 5, 2009September 5, 2009 by wade

Washington It’s hard to make everyone happy around the nation’s capitol these days.  I was reading a column in the Washington Examiner that rued the fact that a koffee-klatch meeting with friends and interested Citizen Wealth readers in the Baltimore basement of SEIU 1199 wasn’t some kind of arena rock venue and where the columnist …

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Stealing from Poor Workers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice September 2, 2009 by wade

Baltimore Ruth Milkman of UCLA and Nik Theodore of University of Illinois, Chicago are top researchers and obviously savvy enough to put out their study, Broken Promises, Unprotected Workers, as an exclusive to Steve Greenhouse at the Times to get maximum attention to their summary of surveys from over 4000 workers in 2008 which indicates …

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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"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

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