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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: DC Politics

Here Come the 50s Again, Complete with a Cold War

DC Politics Health Care National Politics December 30, 2016 by digital

Puerto Aventuras   Reading the news online doesn’t count as a pleasure these days, if it ever did. The upshot in the domestic and international news seems to be that we are going into 2017 and ending a presidency of the 21st century by dialing the clock back to inaugurate a presidency of the mid-20th century. …

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Doctors Can’t Be Trusted About Healthcare

Citizen Wealth DC Politics Financial Justice Health Care December 29, 2016 by digital

Cancun   Of all of the bad nominations coming our way, the notion of Georgia Congressman Tom Price running the Health and Human Services has the most impact on millions of people because of the impact of his virulent opposition to the Affordable Care Act and the jeopardy it places not only on 30 million beneficiaries …

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Picking on the Populists

DC Politics Ideas and Issues National Politics Organizing December 25, 2016December 26, 2016 by digital

Merida   The original Peoples’ Party organizers and leaders more than 130 years ago who built a mass movement, called appropriately then, “populists,” would be rolling over in their graves if they could hear and read the sins being committed in their names today. Not that they would be surprised, because there was never a time …

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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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