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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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With a Corporate Culture Built on Bribery, Walmart Was Running with Plenty to Hide

Ideas and Issues Organizing April 23, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  We told you so!  We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly.  In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …

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Killing the Tea Party with Guns

ACORN Ideas and Issues February 16, 2010 by wade

New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today.  They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill.  Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the story …

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