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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

Second Circuit Tries Hoisting ACORN on Its Own Petard

ACORN Community Organizing Personal Writings August 15, 2010August 15, 2010 by wade

Laramie I may be stuck in Laramie, but I adapt and make the best of it, which is what organizers do by nature and training.  I spent a couple of hours at Coal Creek Coffee downtown in no small part because generally coffee in Wyoming sucks, despite the greatness of the state, and because the …

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Silver Bullet Hits Home

Personal Writings Rebuild New Orleans August 11, 2010August 11, 2010 by wade

Helena Back on the grid and glad to report that despite some challenges, the Silver Bullet (nee’ Airstream International Sovereign) veteran of 4 years of New Orleans post-Katrina rebuilding and one year of Denver acclimation, made it with only the bare minimum of huffing and puffing to a permanent at the edge of the mountain …

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Planting the Bullet off the Grid

Personal Writings August 6, 2010August 6, 2010 by wade

Helena One hour countdown!  Coffee making, Times scanned (congratulations for an excellent and hilarious piece, Emma, on the Blago trail getting it in the shorts!), packing underway, and with great excitement moving down the last items on the list, as we count the hours until Rock Creek and radio silence and entering another world. I …

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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

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