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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

WikiLeaks without Assange or WikiLeaks without Internet?

Ideas and Issues October 19, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   First there was a note that the daily surge of WikiLeaks email dumps had suddenly stopped for two days prompting speculation that maybe Ecuador had cut the internet connects to Julian Assange in his hideout apartment in the Ecuadorian embassy in an upscale London district. Then there was confirmation, including commentary from Raphael …

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Rigged Elections and Sore Losers

ACORN DC Politics Ideas and Issues National Politics October 17, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   Polls are showing a consolidated lead for Hillary Clinton with three weeks to go and many states already beginning early voting. Republican strategists are warning that it may be too late for a Trump turnaround. The cascade of issues from racism to tax dodging to misogyny and sexual harassment and abuse seem to …

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Mental Health Consumers Organize: One Foot in Dirt, Other in the Clouds

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues October 14, 2016October 14, 2016 by digital

Juneau   I’ve often said that to be successful an organizer has to have one eye squarely planted on the ground where she’s walking and the other high in the clouds where she is trying to go. That has never been truer than in the case of the formal founding of the Mental Health Consumers Action …

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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

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

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