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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".

Biden, Afghanistan, American Credibility, and Neo-colonialism

DC Politics International August 16, 2021 by Chief Organizer

       New Orleans     I’m going so far out of my lane, I’m in Afghanistan.  Not literally of course, since everyone with a US passport is in line for a helicopter out of Kabul or in line trying to get a visa to decamp. The top line is clear.  The Taliban in a matter of …

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Gallagher’s New Narrative Memoir Poetry Book

Health Care August 16, 2021 by Chief Organizer

       Pearl River     My friend and comrade, Jamaica Plains’ own Mike Gallagher, has a new book for poems coming out that he is previewing at several events at the end of August and again in the fall.  If there were such a genre as “organizing poem,” Mike would be one of its leading lights.  …

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Tulane University’s Long Con

Ideas and Issues August 13, 2021August 16, 2021 by Chief Organizer

New Orleans     Tulane University, located in New Orleans uptown Garden District, is a source of pride for many.  The university is consistently ranked relatively highly by most reporting services.  It’s not top tier, Ivy League or Little Ivy, but it’s in the small cohort of excellent private universities in the South.  Increasingly, it has …

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