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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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Republicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril

Ideas and Issues March 11, 2011March 11, 2011 by wade

Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin.  And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not Wisconsin or Indiana, then Ohio for sure.  The great Midwestern flyover zone was front and center in every …

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Bullseye on Public Sector Workers and Unions

Labor Organizing January 6, 2011January 6, 2011 by wade

New Orleans For all the talk about the U.S. Congress and what it might do at the hands of the new majority, there’s still a couple of circuit breakers handling too much power surge when business has to go to the Senate or even face a Presidential veto.  In the states rouge legislators could be …

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Brewer, Bankers, and Union Busters – Election Day!

Immigration Reform Labor Organizing National Politics Organizing November 2, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Yesterday was the first day of our future and from all reports it was much, much scarier than Halloween might have ever hoped to be.  Look at the cases in point. In the federal hearing on immigration madness in Arizona, Governor Brewer took time out of her campaign schedule (ok, that’s a lie; …

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