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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: Labor Organizing

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ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings July 5, 2006 by wade

New Orleans     Happy 4th of July!  Rained in New Orleans off and on all day, and believe it or not, that’s a good thing.  Daughter pulled out in one of the ACORN Mobile Action Centers (a dodge step van!) for Columbus with convention materials.  Son is leaving on Wednesday morning in the 2nd team with …

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Update from New Orleans

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings Rebuild New Orleans July 5, 2006 by wade

New Orleans       When I woke before dawn this morning there was the same acrid smell of burning fires that greets you in Delhi, but I was home.  It means there was a fire that our low water pressure could not handle and another abandoned building still standing in the wake of Katrina, had now fallen.  …

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New York Home Child Care Workers!

ACORN Health Care Labor Organizing June 29, 2006 by wade

Los Angeles     Something important –and good — is happening for low wage workers, and, yes, Virginia, there are low wage workers even in New York State, particularly the home child care workers laboring under state contracts to provide day care for tens of thousands of working parents.  There are a lot of them — 52,000 …

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