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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".

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Blog 852: 300 Million

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings March 4, 2008 by wade

Bogota We finally all got to talk to each other. Shashi Bhushan and I met with the asian caucus that quickly became the india plus caucus as first one then another jumped in to speak. SEWA, the Self Employed Women’s Association, had an organizer and two leaders present. They claim 31,000 waste-picking members and three …

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Border Clash

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings March 3, 2008 by wade

Bogota     The second day of the Congress was better for all of us. We were able to escape the formal declarations and multiple presentations from dignitaries and sponsors, and finally settled into the Organizing Track. For hours we listened and learned intently from case studies given from Cairo, Egypt, our own ACORN-affiliated Harit Recyclers …

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Endymion Parking

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings February 3, 2008 by wade

New Orleans        ACORN bought a new national headquarters on Canal Street, the storied center line between the French Quarter and the CBD (Central Business District).  We are twenty-six blocks from the River.  From the window in my new office I can see the Superdome and much of downtown.  We are hardly moved in on …

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