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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".

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Inflation Fuels India Minimum Wage Protests

India Minimum Wage Workers April 19, 2026 by Chief Organizer

            Houston           Free trade, globalism, tariffs, and MAGAism are happening in one country after another as countries pretend that they can be islands unto themselves. Trump and Israel’s war in Iran are all proving it’s one world, whether any of them like it or not.  There are few better case stories than what’s happening in …

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Indian Gig Workers are Gamechangers

ACORN International India Strike Unions Workers February 27, 2026 by Chief Organizer

            Pearl River      My annual trip to India was snakebit this year.  The cost of the ticket was hundreds of dollars higher than usual, but that turned out to be the least of the problem.  Scheduled to leave on Sunday, the East Coast blizzard was expected to hit Newark airport hard, which was my jumping …

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The Long Shadow of Hansen’s Disease

Health Care Unions Workers January 12, 2026January 14, 2026 by Chief Organizer

            New Orleans       Over Christmas, an obituary ran in the Wall Street Journal for an unusual doctor, named William Levis, who died in his sleep at 86, having seen patients during the last week of his life.  All that was interesting enough, but what caught my attention was the fact that he ran the …

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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

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

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