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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".

Tag: Change.org

Change.org Zigzag Positions on Anti-Union Stand for Children and Students First

Education Labor Organizing June 21, 2012 by digital

Cincinnati   Speaking of Change.org and its chameleon way to seeming to be a progressive nonprofit, but actually operating a for profit, list aggregation and sales operation, no sooner do we look at the contradictions and deceptions in the way they present themselves than I notice an item in the Huffington Post by Ryan Grim with …

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Is Change.org about Real Change or Just Pocket Change?

Ideas and Issues June 20, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    Like many progressives I get frequent solicitations from Change.org about this petition or that petition for this cause or that cause.  I’m not a big petition signing guy, just because it’s time I don’t really have and a tool that is not the first to my hand, but I monitor it all to …

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Bringing Down Bank of America: Social Media or Social Movement?

Financial Justice Protests November 3, 2011 by wade

New Orleans The queue to “count coup” on Bank of America and its decision to step back from stealing debit card fees from its customers is almost unseemly.  We expect it from politicians, and props to Senator Durbin, VP Joe Biden, and the rest of the DC gang for the pile-on, which in fact was …

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