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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: Personal Writings

Orange County Footnotes

ACORN Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings December 5, 2007 by wade

New Orleans     In negotiating with sub-prime companies and mortgage lending servicers and bankers, I have occasionally made the joke about one of the longest weeks of my life was one day in Orange County when several California ACORN leaders, the director of the ACORN Financial Justice Center, the director of counseling for ACORN Housing, …

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Big Win at HSBC on RALs

ACORN Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings December 3, 2007 by wade

New Orleans     A signature effort of the campaign conducted by ACORN with tax preparers over the last 4-5 years has been to either eliminate Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) and similar products from the marketplace or failing to do that, reduce the predatory pricing that drives the product. In our the agreements to settle this …

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Jesse and Obama

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings December 2, 2007 by wade

New Orleans     The headline on this story would be the meeting between Senator Barack Obama from Illinois and President Maude Hurd and the ACORN Executive Board along with some other leaders in the region in New York City last week to finally get the Senator on record with his answers to the questions that …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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

Italian Interview with Wade

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