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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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Measuring Results

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Organizer Training December 8, 2005 by wade

Hartford          Professor Don Green from Yale made the point in a dry, but dramatic, manner:  do the tests, make them random, and then let the data speak.  He was talking about measuring the results of ACORN in get out the vote efforts in Phoenix, Bridgeport, Detroit, and elsewhere.  For the money and the impact there …

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ACORN Perspectives at UCONN

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Organizer Training December 7, 2005 by wade

Hartford            I arrived as Peter Drier from Occidental College finished his paper and Frances Fox Piven from GUNY presented her views on the tensions between protest and electoral politics.  The fur was flying in the genteel manner of the academy.   It was a wonderful experience to be a “fly on the wall,” as serious thinkers worried …

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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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