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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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Community Organizing Education Ideas and Issues Uncategorized May 23, 2009May 23, 2009 by wade

Ocean Springs        Having read the papers with a nice light rain outside as I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn, I found an intriguing posting by Stephen Windwalker about Kindle books on his Facebook status update.  He’s a stone cold Kindle fanatic and seems to be one of the worlds’ premier experts on Kindle …

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Money Guard

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Ideas and Issues May 22, 2009May 23, 2009 by wade

New Orleans        A colleague forwarded me an interesting “citizen wealth” strategy for lower income families to protect small resources:  having a “money guard.”  The P2P Foundation (peer to peer) included a piece on their website with the following story: Money guarding: “If you get a fairly decent chunk of money, you give it to …

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Leader Thinking

Community Organizing Organizer Training Organizing May 19, 2009May 19, 2009 by wade

Chicago    The board of the Organizers’ Forum set aside an entire day for what turned out to be a fascinating dialogue on leadership development and training for community and labor organizations.  There were a host of challenges, but in sharing the practices of various networks including DART, WORC, PICO, ACORN Canada, Acorn International, SEIU, and …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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