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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

Citizen Wealth Savings Incentives

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues February 26, 2009 by wade

Boston        If the only paper you can get in a roadside motel is USA Today, then by god that’s the paper I’m going to read, and so it was in Boston while marooned in Medford a short hike from Tufts.     One interesting article was right on time the other day and it detailed …

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Groping for Meltdown Clues

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues February 20, 2009 by wade

      Boston  There is a perverse and maddening fascination in being a stranger in a strange land, which I rediscovered sitting in the last row and listening to some very articulate and smart people grope for clues to explain the current, world financial crises at the opening session of the Tufts EPIIC International Symposium.  The panel included …

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Kenya’s Organizing Practitioners

Community Organizing International February 16, 2009 by wade

      Nairobi On my last day of this Nairobi trip I was honored to be the guest of a fascinating organization that I have written about before over the years, COPA-K — Community Organizing Practitioners Association of Kenya.  This is that rarity in the world — a professional association of organizers.  There are about 80 members.  They …

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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

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