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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

Wal-Mart Says Raise the Minimum Wage?!?

Financial Justice Labor Organizing WalMart October 27, 2005 by wade

Tampa     You’ve said it before, I know you have, and so have I. When it snows on the 4th of July, then so and so will happen, whatever might fit the most outrageous description imaginable. The Red Sox will win the Series. The White Sox will make it to the World Series. New Orleans will be …

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Organizing Workers at the Frontier

ACORN Community Organizing Labor Organizing Organizer Training October 23, 2005 by wade

Dallas    For 18 years we have held an annual labor board/staff retreat with all of the troops of Local 880 and Local 100 SEIU. This year was different in a lot of ways. First, we were meeting at South Fork Ranch in Dallas. Everyone kept asking how we came to South Fork, the scene of the …

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Progressive Forces Hungry for the Fight

Community Organizing Labor Organizing Organizer Training Personal Writings October 13, 2005 by wade

Boston     I landed at close to 2 AM in the morning at Logan Airport. It was close to 3 AM before the head found the pillow. It was small comfort to find “my story” on the front page of the Boston Globe where radar problems had knocked the flight schedules — like mine — on …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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