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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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Religious Adaptation: Scouts, Immigrants and Whistleblowers Make Me Wonder

Ideas and Issues May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 by digital

Little Rock  Talking to someone yesterday who wanted to do a series of reports for KABF community radio about religion, caught me up short and forced me to actually think for a minute about the strange and interesting stirrings within religious denominations that might just indicate that in the face of declining membership, some of them …

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United We Dream, Training in Quito, and Ecuadorian Volleyball

ACORN International December 1, 2012December 1, 2012 by digital

Quito    Nice to wake up and read the front page of the New York Times and see our companero/companera Carlos Saavedra from Peru and Boston and Gaby Pacheco from Ecuador and Miami, along with other young organizers and activists with United We Dream finally get the credit for their courage and skill in breaking through both …

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Was there a DREAM versus Secure Communities Immigration Deal?

ACORN International Immigration Reform International August 19, 2011 by wade

Buenos Aires        I want to share how exciting it was to be with the organizing committee in the Isidor Casanova district of the mega-slum, La Matanza, yesterday as they planned their first major campaign to clean up the fouled, garbage laden dump that their river has become, but that will have to wait until …

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