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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: International

What Wal-Mart Can’t Buy

Financial Justice International WalMart January 27, 2006 by wade

New Orleans        It must be rough being the world’s largest corporation and largest employer and still having these old school institutions get in your way.  Governments are so pesky.  You would think we would have found something new in these modern times.  Alan Greenspan, Mr. Federal Reserve and Mr. Financial Establishment, decided to oppose the …

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Shifting Sides in the Snowdrift

ACORN Ideas and Issues International January 25, 2006 by wade

New Orleans                    Ok.  I hear you!  It’s time to admit that I have a LOT to learn about predicting the shifting sides among the great Canadian electorate.  Two months ago I opined that even though it appeared to all observers, including the ACORN superstars in our ACORN Canada national office in Vancouver, that this was …

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Tsunami and Katrina

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings December 28, 2005 by wade

Aguascaliente         While here in the high desert of Aguascaliente, wondering in the aridity of winter, how hot it might feel in the summer, water still comes naturally to mind, and not just hot water, but all water. Receiving an invitation to fly to Banda Aceh to participate in a commemoration of the one-year anniversary of …

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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

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