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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

Ohio – GOTV — Battleground Zero

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues October 24, 2004 by wade

Columbus, Ohio: The ACORN National Association Board wisely decided to have its fall meeting in Columbus because it sensed that Ohio could be ground zero in the critical last weeks before the United States presidential election.  The polls had been bouncing around like ping pong balls with Kerry ahead one day and Bush the next.  Both …

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Asian Community Organizers’ Network

Community Organizing International Organizer Training October 23, 2004 by wade

New York City:  Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together.  Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …

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London Citizens

Community Organizing International October 18, 2004 by wade

London: On the tube from Heathrow my neighbors looked at me peculiarly on the subway as I pointed out a huge rainbow that could be seen simply by looking out the window.  After the dry weather during most of my time in Africa, the dark clouds and touches of rain seemed very London, and at the …

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