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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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Unity Village Trail

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 by digital

              Lee’s Summit, Missouri                 Travel requires an open mind to discovery.  We traveled to Lee’s Summit, Missouri, the 101,000 person, sixth-largest city in the state, that we and the rest of the world will always understand as really a suburb of Kansas City, nestled in their metropolitan area.  Of all my aunts and …

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Thanksgiving on the Bayou

Louisiana Recovery Personal Writings November 26, 2021 by Chief Organizer

Pearl River     A half-moon was peaking through the clouds as I walked the dog in the predawn, but they had become wispy as I left the dock to navigate my way up the bayou.  The water had risen during the night, so it was easy to climb into the canoe.  When it’s low, it’s more of a downward …

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Drew, Mississippi, My Mother’s Home

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings November 8, 2015November 9, 2015 by digital

New Orleans   It was just another day for my mother, but it was her birthday, and she was now 92 years’ old, and that’s quite something in itself. Several times during the week before she had asked me if her mother was still alive, and I would explain that she had died forty years earlier. …

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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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