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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: WalMart

Wal-Mart Woes

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing WalMart August 1, 2006 by wade

Miami      When you are on a losing streak, it shows and everyone knows, and that’s the story of Wal-Mart these days on many fronts. Several months ago the behemoth company was forced to pull up stakes in South Korea, and over the last week the news broke that Wal-Mart sold all of its stores in …

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Big Box Breakthrough in Chi-town

ACORN Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing WalMart July 27, 2006 by wade

Atlanta       All of us against all of them, full body no holds barred throw down in Chicago.  ACORN, labor, some churches in front with Brennan Center in back against Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and other big boxes with Mayor Daley in back.  Round by round a bruiser.  Madeline Talbott, Chicago ACORN head organizer, told me the …

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Wal-Mart Buying the Opposition

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice Ideas and Issues WalMart July 25, 2006 by wade

New Orleans         Wal-Mart continues to prove over and over again that it is the same ruthless, aggressive, take-no-prisoners company it has always been, it just puts a little more money out in the community than it once did and it pays lip service to some environmental issues when it suits the companies purpose to figure …

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