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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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Big Bad Corporations Get to Rip and Run on Settlements and Taxes

Ideas and Issues December 5, 2015December 6, 2015 by digital

Little Rock   When we read the headlines on the big settlements wrung from corporate baddies for egregious conduct like banks stealing peoples’ homes, plants polluting entire city water systems, or oil companies negligently polluting something as immense as the Gulf of Mexico, we see that they are paying billions and billions of dollars to make …

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“Gasland” and the Powder River Coal Basin

Ideas and Issues August 16, 2010August 13, 2020 by wade

Laramie Throughout our journey through the west, the HBO documentary, Gasland, was a frequent topic of conversation.  I’ll have to wait until I get home to track it down, but I gather there were shots throughout Wyoming and this area of water coming out of taps in flames and other wildness that would naturally rivet …

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Why So Little Change Won from BP Gulf Crisis?

Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Fingers are crossed, breath held, and hopes soaring that finally there may be an interim fix on the British Petroleum BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  An article by David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post yesterday asked in a timely fashion why this oil crisis has not …

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Put a Cap on Well Hell!

Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery July 13, 2010 by wade

Atlanta Man, I hope this works!  I don’t want another couple of months of oil in the Gulf of Mexico while relief wells are dug.  The Wall Street Journal wrote optimistically this morning that the “new” sealing cap could finally the lifesaver, and I really, really want to believe them.  The New York Times pulling …

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BP Might Be Obama’s Katrina

Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery Personal Writings May 3, 2010 by wade

New Orleans I know Venice, Louisiana pretty well, not that there is a lot to know. It’s a strip of land dominated by a blacktop highway ending in water and bordered by a fringe of shell gravel here and there and nothing but water. I worked 14 day shifts on and 7 days off as …

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