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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

Flattening the World?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing WalMart November 22, 2005 by wade

Delhi     Flying from Newark to Delhi between Saturday night and Sunday night in the way the globe and the sun turns, I plowed through The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist. This had been a gift from my son for my birthday, so despite the fact that I can’t really abide …

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Wildcat

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings November 12, 2005 by wade

Los Angeles     My day started early in New Orleans looking at houses in the 1200 block of Desire Street, a couple of blocks from St. Claude. Not much water, but there had been one roof after another blown to smithereens. Shortly afterwards three young fellows from Common Ground climbed up one of the roofs to try …

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Webcasting the ACORN Rebuilding Conference

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice Labor Organizing November 7, 2005 by wade

Baton Rouge     Today (Monday) we will open up the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans at the LSU Cook Conference Center. Within weeks of the hurricane we started reaching out to our friends and allies in the planning and architectural worlds with the hard questions — how do we rebuild New Orleans. Some of them …

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