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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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Unions Pushing Up Wages from Below

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing January 30, 2014 by digital

Little Rock   I’m not sure whether it’s a backstory, a footnote, or just good organizers grabbing a handle and moving fast and hard with it, but under, over, and around the new push to $10.10, rather than $15.00 per hour, is some good, solid, and exciting union organizing of contract workers in federal facilities around …

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Obama: Sailor for Social Change and Movement Man

Community Organizing Organizing January 26, 2014 by digital

New Orleans    A lengthy interview with President Obama by David Remnick in The New Yorker has attracted a lot of attention for this detail and that, largely about the atmospherics and attitudes of the often inscrutably aloof Obama and how it impacts his practice as president.  More interesting to me were insights that Obama revealed …

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Another Year End / Year Beginning Meeting

Organizing January 20, 2014January 20, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   Every year for the last forty years or so, we’ve suited up for a YE/YB Meeting or to be more formal, the “Year End / Year Begin” meeting, where all of the allied organizations review and evaluate the progress of the previous year and make plans, have strategy, and planning sessions, undergo training …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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