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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

Miles and Miles

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice November 8, 2005 by wade

New Orleans     We left LSU’s Cook Center with 2 filled tour buses for the trip to New Orleans. Planners, architects, sociologists, developers, and a number of New Orleans evacuees all plopped into the seats filled with expectations. But even before we crossed into the parish after listening to everyone’s story on the bus, we knew this …

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Webcasting the ACORN Rebuilding Conference

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice Labor Organizing November 7, 2005 by wade

Baton Rouge     Today (Monday) we will open up the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans at the LSU Cook Conference Center. Within weeks of the hurricane we started reaching out to our friends and allies in the planning and architectural worlds with the hard questions — how do we rebuild New Orleans. Some of them …

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Saturation?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues WalMart November 3, 2005 by wade

Dallas     In the grocery and retail business there is a constantly shifting question about what is enough and what is too much when it comes to Wal-Mart. While I was in Dallas for some meetings, I read the end of a front page two-part series in the Dallas Morning News (part 2, part 1) about the …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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