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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

De-escalating Violence

Ideas and Issues April 22, 2018April 23, 2018 by digital

New Orleans   Getting more experience in hospital emergency and waiting rooms is on no one’s top ten list, but, trust me, you do the time and this comes with the territory.  If you can call it luck, it’s not you personally, though the anger and aggravation when it is family is every bit as bad. People …

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Standing Rock and Veterans Stand

Ideas and Issues April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 by digital

New Orleans      Standing Rock seems like yesterday though it was the fall and winter of 2016, when the Standing Rock Sioux were joined by representatives of tribes from throughout the nation and thousands of supporters in an encampment that tried to stop the completion of the Dakota Pipeline.  The fight inspired deep support.  A …

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Cold Weather and Warm Hearts in Michigan

Ideas and Issues April 17, 2018April 18, 2018 by digital

Detroit       I saw the picture of the woman who won the Boston Marathon in what was described as epically horrible conditions.  Normally in the embrace of a New Orleans spring I would simply shake my head and say, “why?”  Not this year, because I felt like I had lived my own version as I broke …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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