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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

Last Door Slamming at Goldman Sachs and Wall Street

Ideas and Issues March 15, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Dear New York Times Public Editor:  Is it really news, if it is “news” about your own op-ed, which was a letter to the editor, and is still “news about nothing?”  A mid-level executive pulling down 1% money of between $500K and $750K at the giant Wall Street mega-firm Goldman Sachs writes a …

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The Decline of the California Model of Union Organizing

Ideas and Issues March 14, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   A funny thing happened to this piece on the way to the journal, New Labor Forum.  Invited by the book review editors to do an essay that started as Working for Justice: The LA Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Editors:  Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro (ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2010), …

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Blaming the Victims: Catholic Church Attack on SNAP & Dave Clohessy

ACORN Ideas and Issues March 13, 2012March 13, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    Blaming the victim may be more American than apple pie at this point.  Apple pie is less and less a staple of the American diet, but blaming the victims seems to be the default mode for institutions large and small that are unable to correct their cultures. It is inarguable that the Catholic …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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