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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

Radio Silence in Rock Creek, Goodbye Glenn Beck!

ACORN Ideas and Issues Personal Writings August 5, 2010August 5, 2010 by wade

Helena Driving across Wyoming and Montana is a homecoming as memories and mountains swallowed 50 feet of truck and trailer, family and friends, as we gulped in the view, cool dry air, and good company.  At lunch we lived a highlight reel as old comrades and friends, Pat Sweeny of WORC (Western Organization of Resource …

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A Hustle versus a Job

Citizen Wealth Labor Organizing Personal Writings August 2, 2010August 2, 2010 by wade

Denver For several years Local 100 represented buggy drivers in the French Quarter of New Orleans.  Any tourist in the city has seen the mule driven buggies lined up in front of Jackson Square to give tours which are a mixture of fact, fiction, and raw personality from the drivers themselves.  In meeting after meeting …

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Sherrod: Exposing the Lemmings on the Cliff

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings July 25, 2010July 25, 2010 by wade

New Orleans The rush to judgment, public lynching of Shirley Sherrod speaks less to me about the stark avoidance of race, though absolutely that retreat is correctly the headline, than what it further exposes about the cowardice of conviction in the mindless process of media call-and-response where seeking face time and sound bites seems to …

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