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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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Hesitating at the Door

ACORN Base Building Organizer Training Organizing May 13, 2023May 15, 2023 by Chief Organizer

            Philadelphia      Like a bad penny, the same question popped up again in the crowd of forty activists and organizers in Philly, just as it had in Easthampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  People understood that home visits and door knocking are fundamental to the ACORN, but everywhere people are asking if it’s really safe to …

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In the Game and Keeping Your Voice

KABF Media Organizing January 28, 2023 by Chief Organizer

Marble Falls      Recently at a KABF board meeting, one of our longtime board members, a showrunner for one show, and a co-host of another wanted to give us a heads-up about underwriting for one of the shows.  He said it was getting harder to sign up the original nonprofit groups, each of which he …

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Every Small Bit Helps

Charity Organizing Personal Writings Wade's World December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 by digital

From: December 24, 2022             Baja California           Charity is a funny thing, not funny ha-ha, but funny in the sense that it has a million faces, or at least, as we have often discussed about tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals, it should have.  As organizers, we often scoff at charity as band aid fixes that might ameliorate …

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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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