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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

Fighting Holiday and Second Homes

ACORN International Community Organizing Housing July 9, 2022July 8, 2022 by digital

Heerlen       One of the more interesting campaigns that ACORN has engaged in Britain, in the ongoing housing crisis over the shortage of affordable homes and rental units, focuses on the explosion of second homes and holiday homes.  Holiday homes are a pleasant-sounding euphemism for what would be known in the US as Airbnb’s and other …

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Radio, Still Invaluable for Keeping in Touch with the Truth

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Radio March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 by digital

           Carlsbad, NM      While reading about the cyberattacks, front and center, as well as out of sight, in the terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine as I flew to El Paso, I noticed an interesting piece in a recent Economist entitled “Skywaves and Satellites:  Technologies old and new may help keep …

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In-person Now

ACORN International Community Organizing Ideas and Issues January 31, 2022February 7, 2022 by Chief Organizer

January 31, 2022  New Orleans   There was an op-ed by a churchgoer in the Times that made a simple case:  it was time to go back to church.  Of course, that’s what all the churchgoers say, but her argument was different.  She wanted everyone of her co-religionists to physically go back to church and to …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

04/16/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

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

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

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