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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: Health Care

A Mile in Other Shoes

Health Care Ideas and Issues August 2, 2021 by Chief Organizer

August 1, 2021            New Orleans      Look, I might be old as dirt, but I’m in good shape and with good genes and even better luck have been wildly healthy all my life.  Yeah, I have a bum knee from high school football and right this minute a swollen foot from a copperhead bite, …

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Snakebite by Copperhead and Corporate Hospitals

Health Care August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 by Chief Organizer

  July 30, 2021             Little Rock      I’ve gone whole decades without having to take a sick day due to good health and even better luck.  But, stuck in the mammoth Little Rock Baptist Hospital all day with no working internet and unable to walk, there’s no way around counting this as a sick day. …

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Mask Protection

Health Care Ideas and Issues Podcasts November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 by digital

November 27, 2020 Pearl River     There’s a huge back and forth among the American masses about mask protection from Covid-19. Support, according to surveys, for mass masking has continued to rise, despite resistance in the White House. We’re certainly going to see something approaching a national mandate or call for mass making with a new …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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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"

Italian Interview with Wade

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