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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

Rising Obamacare Enrollment Can’t be Stopped

Health Care Ideas and Issues February 5, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   The massive battleground that the Republicans have made of implementation of the Affordable Care Act has no strategy to deal with a ticking time bomb that could blow up in their faces, and that’s the problem of math – people are voting for the program with their feet in increasing numbers through their enrollment.  …

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Latina Women Trumping White Men as Keys to the Future

Ideas and Issues February 1, 2014 by digital

Little Rock   Professor Christina Bejarano, a Texan now teaching at the University of Kansas, was on the program at the Clinton School of Public Service giving a brief talk on the “Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics,” so I popped in for a minute to see what insights she might offer.  The bottom line in …

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No Place for Young Men: Why Snowden Can’t Get a Fair Trial in the USA

Ideas and Issues January 23, 2014January 23, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   If you read the editorial pages of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, they pretty much want to hang Edward Snowden from the nearest tree for his tsunami level leak of documents about the National Security Agency’s spying work on just about everyone from standard issue citizens of the United States to heads of …

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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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