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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: Community Organizing

Montreal’s Decentralized Powerlessness

Community Organizing International March 26, 2010March 26, 2010 by wade

Montreal Spring is still an unconfirmed rumor here it turned out, as afternoon winds signaled a front lowering the temperature from a sunny day to what ended up as 15 degrees and a wind chill beneath contempt. Fortunately for Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s Head Organizer, and Jill O’Reilly, the head organizer for Ottawa ACORN, we …

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Immigration Reform Rally on the Mall

Community Organizing Immigration Reform March 22, 2010 by wade

Washington The front page news may have been the high drama of health care passage in the House, but between the White House and the Capitol, filling blocks inside the Mall, the story was the demand of thousands from all over the country, and in this case all over the world, who were coming to …

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Where is Community Organizer in Chief?

Community Organizing March 17, 2010 by wade

Baltimore Catching up on reading on the plane was disturbing in big and small ways.  How in the world has Obama so badly lost his groove? What happened to the understanding and instincts of an organizer, being able to listen, forge the rap and flyer that works, and lead through others?   A piece by George …

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