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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".

Did Relational Organizing Do the Job for Dems?

Ideas and Issues November 25, 2020 by digital

November 25, 2020 New Orleans      Now that the transition has finally begun to the White House, the post-mortem on the recent national elections in the United States will begin in even more earnest. One theme that has been on constant replay already has been the underperformance of Democrats all down the ballot compared to …

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Election Security Means Standardization

Ideas and Issues November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by digital

November 24, 2020 New Orleans      Here’s a full disclosure first. I read everything that passes in front of me that is written by tech wizard and take-no-prisoner-analyst, Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina and a contributing writer for The Atlantic and the New York Times. I became a fan when …

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Rogues Gallery of Corporate Liars

Ideas and Issues November 21, 2020 by digital

Pearl River     We should all know the name, Thomas Midgley? He was a chemist for General Motors almost one-hundred years ago, when General Motors and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of New Jersey were the Google and Facebook of their day, or maybe I should say Google and Facebook are the GM and Standard Oil of today.  …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

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"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

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