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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

Feliz Navidad!

International Personal Writings December 27, 2005 by wade

Zacatecas     In the high desert the days are warm and the nights are cool this time of the year. The midday skies are the pure blue that seems so dramatic in Mexico against the soft edge of a roof or wrought iron as one looks up as far as one can see. In the night the …

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Katrina’s Wake Hits the Highlands

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings December 23, 2005 by wade

San Luis Potosi      News of a bill passing at least part of the Congress seemed like we had a chance still for New Orleans to survive.  The world of New Orleans work stretches down to the central Mexican highlands.  A man on the street asks where I’m from and when New Orleans is the answer, …

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No Place to Run

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings WalMart December 21, 2005 by wade

Monterrey, Mexico      We stopped at a CITGO (the Venezuelan gas company) in El Refugio, Texas between Houston and Brownsville.  El Refugio may have a sign as you enter the town noting that this was the home of Nolan Ryan, the great fireball pitcher, but it’s not anymore.  Now everyone was either going towards Mexico or …

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