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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

Pulling Shots in the Service Industry

ACORN International Personal Writings February 21, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Getting up at 430 AM to go to work reminded me of the days worked in the oil fields and offshore after high school where the clock started at 6AM and I had to be in the field or on the boat, or at Luzianne Coffee Company when I was 19 and 20 and …

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Celebrating Barbara Bowen

Personal Writings January 30, 2012January 30, 2012 by digital

New Orleans     There is no way that anything I can write would do complete justice to the life and work of Barbara Bowen, my friend and comrade for over 40 years, but luckily I don’t really need to because her life and work was about justice and she lived it exactly that way from beginning …

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Force-placed Insurance and Me

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings January 22, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  I find no joy in reading about forced-placed insurance, but I take great satisfaction in seeing the farce and fraud of such anti-consumer insurance coming to light.  Quoting Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of Financial Services from Gretchen Morgenson’s “Fair Game” column in the Times, Force-placed insurance appears to be the dirty little secret of the …

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