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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".

Stopping Hater McCarthyism

Ideas and Issues Organizing September 6, 2009 by wade

New Orleans I take all of these constant attacks personally, because they are meant to be personal, but I understand them as political, and increasingly believe that we are missing that critical difference in responding to the hater-ation of the right.  The Van Jones push-out is a perfect example. Jones has made a hard mark …

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Working Poor Catch a Break

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Town Hall September 5, 2009September 5, 2009 by wade

Washington It’s hard to make everyone happy around the nation’s capitol these days.  I was reading a column in the Washington Examiner that rued the fact that a koffee-klatch meeting with friends and interested Citizen Wealth readers in the Baltimore basement of SEIU 1199 wasn’t some kind of arena rock venue and where the columnist …

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Thanking John Sweeney

ACORN Employee Free Choice Act Labor Organizing Organizing WARN September 4, 2009September 4, 2009 by wade

Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree.  I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer with …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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