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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

No Place to Run

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings WalMart December 21, 2005 by wade

Monterrey, Mexico      We stopped at a CITGO (the Venezuelan gas company) in El Refugio, Texas between Houston and Brownsville.  El Refugio may have a sign as you enter the town noting that this was the home of Nolan Ryan, the great fireball pitcher, but it’s not anymore.  Now everyone was either going towards Mexico or …

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Wal-Mart on the run?

ACORN Ideas and Issues Organizer Training WalMart December 20, 2005 by wade

Houston     Another highlight of our Year End / Year Begin meeting was bringing together some of the top organizers dealing with Wal-Mart to look at the results of the work and the plans for 2006.  Paul Blank, the director of WakeUpWalmart.com, Amy Tevares, Field Director of WalMartWatch, and our own Rick Smith of WARN and …

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Right to Information

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing WalMart November 23, 2005 by wade

Delhi     There are abbreviations for everything it seems in the language of Delhi. The development of a new transparency in government affairs which ushers in access to information from various layers of government is called the Right to Information Act, but everyone and all the newspapers simply refer to it as RTI. This becomes a powerful …

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