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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".

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Civil Rights Paperwork

ACORN Ideas and Issues Organizer Training July 3, 2006 by wade

Los Angeles       David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Rev. Martin Luther King, made some important points that are worth worry about the King papers in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times on Friday.  If you’ve missed the backstory on this, King’s family has swirled in controversy for years based on their …

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Thoughts on Tajikistan

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Organizer Training June 22, 2006 by wade

New Orleans     In April we responded to a question from a non-profit in Washington, D.C. that was doing training under various contracts with the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID).  They honestly and truly seemed to want someone from our very active and mass based tradition to join them in providing training to a …

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Program Officers are People, Too?

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Organizer Training June 6, 2006 by wade

Santa Fe         Chris Sturgis is an experienced hand at the fundraising rodeo.  She has been a program officer at Mott in Michigan, Omidyar in California, and is still working on that side of the street here and there.  She offered to do a session at our Mid-Year Management Meeting on how foundations really work.  This …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

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