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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: Ideas and Issues

Wilbur Mills Sunk in the Tidal Basin

Ideas and Issues February 25, 2021 by Chief Organizer

February 25, 2021 Little Rock      Wilbur Mills moved me to Arkansas in 1970. He didn’t reach out and offer me a job to work for him or anything like that. Quite the opposite. George Wiley asked me to move from Massachusetts, where I was the head organizer of the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Welfare …

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Georgia Reveals the Trump Tribute

Ideas and Issues February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Chief Organizer

February 24, 2021 Atlanta            Big news in Atlanta was the seeming flipflop by former Senator David Perdue on his commitment to run in two years to reclaim the seat he recently lost by challenging newly elected Senator Raphael Warnock in that race. One week, he is announcing that he has set up an election committee …

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Amazing Grace for 500,000 Covid Dead

Ideas and Issues February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 by Chief Organizer

February 23, 2021 Atlanta        I was driving in what I hoped was post-rush hour traffic in Atlanta after 6pm. I had the local public radio station on, which was interrupted by an NPR feed that was live from the White House. President Biden would be speaking in a commemoration of the US marking 500,000 …

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