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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

Fake Community Organizations

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Personal Writings April 5, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     Once again it seems we have been behind the 8-ball in the new trends in community organizing. It seems we at ACORN will never learn. When there’s a hard way or an easy way to do something, we seem to always pick the hard way. In New York City where many organizing …

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Tennessee Williams Festival

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 1, 2008 by wade

Half-Moon Bay     Let me share an experience out of the ordinary for me at least and that was being on a panel among the literary lions at the annual Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The panel was titled “American Problems, Southern Solutions” after the recently published Tony Dunbar edited volume to which several …

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Recover With Organizing

Community Organizing Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings March 26, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

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