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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

Behind from the Beginning

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues November 29, 2006 by wade

New Orleans  There are few things that I read that have the ability to simply shock and startle, but a piece by Paul Tough in the Sunday New York Times called “What it Takes to Make a Student” was simply arresting. The argument in a nutshell is stark: lower income and minority children are disadvantaged virtually …

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Minimum Wages Matter

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues November 28, 2006 by wade

New Orleans  We do not screen calls in any of our offices. We are a membership organization and the membership can never think that there is a chance that they would not be allowed to talk to anyone when they are calling. I got a call yesterday out of the blue from Roger Davidson. Roger, as …

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ACORN in Second Life?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues November 27, 2006 by wade

New Orleans  One of the things I am certain is a mistake is to claim that I am up to date about the wild world of the web (www!).   Recently a couple of emails alerted me to a level of virtual weirdness that seemed both startling and bizarre.       Here’s the bottom line.  Seems there is …

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