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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

Trombone Shorty and Brown Trout

Personal Writings August 12, 2014 by digital

Missoula   Don’t get me wrong, the pluses of some time off-the-grid in the beauty and harshness of the great American west in Montana, also come with some minuses. A 1978 Airstream stands long and tall against the rocks on the mountainside, but is a constant, shiny target for every possible critter with four legs …

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Memphis Airport and Woody Guthrie’s Revolutionary Mind

ACORN Personal Writings August 10, 2014August 10, 2014 by digital

Missoula          Out here off-the-grid with my grown son, we pass for each other’s adult supervision.  We still keep an eye over our shoulders though.  All of a sudden he grabbed a broom, and he swept the Airstream yesterday with the comment that his mother “wouldn’t have been happy looking at these floors.”  It rained in …

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No Postal Code Envy

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings August 9, 2014August 10, 2014 by digital

Missoula     Traveling around the world, you are not exactly off-the-grid, as much as you are out of touch or in a parallel universe.  In India or Indonesia or Kenya the 8, 10, 12 hour time differences produce a funny “of the moment” focus on matters at hand, when you are on the day side …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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