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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

Pulling Together the Community Leadership Centre

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing Organizer Training April 13, 2004 by wade

Vancouver     Coming down the hill towards the water, trees on each side were bursting in pinks and reds providing fresh color to a typically cool and damp, gray day in beautiful Vancouver.  I have been in this city a number of times in the last year since I first visited with David Levi and John …

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Talking China around the Kitchen Table

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing April 10, 2004 by wade

Little Rock            Sitting around the kitchen table last night with my “outlaws” as they sometimes call themselves out of the blue China was on the agenda.             One was just in from Fort Worth where he was superintending the construction of a music store for a Little Rock construction company.  He related a story from …

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Signs of Crisis in Corrections

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing April 10, 2004 by wade

Grady, Arkansas            Driving through the Southern Arkansas delta in the spring is a treat.  Trees are still working on putting on leaves and a bit naked from the winter, but the azaleas are blooming, setting off the green shooting up everywhere in the fields.  Tractors are pulling out from the side roads with huge chemical …

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