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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: Financial Justice

Hard Changes Coming to France?

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing July 7, 2017July 9, 2017 by digital

Paris   The day began with an ominously when I woke up at 2:05 AM for my 2:45 AM ride to the 3:17 AM train to Budapest. After taking a shower, I realized that in the dark, I had misread the time, and it was now 12:20 AM, not 2:20 AM. It was going to be …

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The Wide Applications of “Kill it to Save it”

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care July 2, 2017 by digital

New Orleans   Reading the desperate comments from President Trump and some of the hard-far-right-conservative Republican Senators on the eve of their “holiday” making the case that because they couldn’t agree on a new bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, then they should just repeal it all, give the existing situation a year to go, …

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Don’t Believe in Climate Change? So Long, Rural South!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 by digital

New Orleans  A peer review study published in the weekly journal, Science, would give any policymaker pause about the future of huge parts of the United States by the end of this century, if they were willing to read it and heed it. One would think Republicans interested in the future of their party would …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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