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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

If Occupy Miami is the Present, Is there an Occupy Future?

Ideas and Issues March 18, 2012March 18, 2012 by digital

New Orleans     It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA.  It’s not easy.  It’s an eyesore and a headache. From city to city where Occupy still holds some ground (speaking in a spatial, rather than a political sense) they continue to be rooted out like the last vestiges …

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Can Komen for the Cure be Reformed?

Ideas and Issues March 17, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   To me the issue was settled.  Nancy Brinker and Komen for the Cure had caved into pressure from the right wing and Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood had taken them to the woodshed and taught them a lesson about what women really care about and in so doing administered a public humiliation that permanently …

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Delicious Ironies: Tea Party Groups and Tax Exemptions

Ideas and Issues National Politics March 16, 2012March 16, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    You just have to love the irony of the government bashing, back-to-the-basics, tri-corner hat wearing Tea-people now lining up at the whining wall to weep about the fact that the Internal Revenue Service is not bending over backwards to give them tax exemptions by joining the pretend party that somehow their purposes are …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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