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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 The Scenes

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues August 17, 2005 by wade

New Orleans: It is almost an iron law in our work that there is virtually no “spontaneous” action.  There is almost always an organizer somewhere.  Or, at least someone is doing the job.   Proof of this proposition propped up in the dry, oven heat of Crawford, Texas on President Bush’s ranch.  In an article in the …

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Las Vegas Gleaner

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings August 16, 2005 by wade

Dallas: I heard from Hugh Jackson the other day.  Hugh is one of my Wyoming club, a small collection of us from the great state, who were born or raised or whatever there and really know that it is a special place and that Dick Cheney is nothing more than an abomination and embarrassment to us …

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Who Was that Masked Man?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing August 12, 2005 by wade

 Washington: Sometimes my colleague and comrade, Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s Field Director, kids me by saying, in what I sometimes pretend is sincere sympathy, rather than bitter irony, that, “It’s not easy being, Wade, the chief organizer, is it?”   And, in that vein, since I have your attention now that I’m marching as part of the union …

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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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