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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: Larry Summers

Syria and Summers Prove the Power of No

Ideas and Issues September 16, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  The progressive forces can suddenly count coup on the Obama Administration over two issues in the matter of recent weeks for both economic progressives and anti-war advocates.             The irony of having a Nobel Peace Prize winning President caught in a web of his own weaving and left with only military options in …

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Counting the Votes against Larry Summers at the Federal Reserve

DC Politics Financial Justice September 7, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration.   The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the United Nations Security Council or a majority of the G-20 largest industrial countries to back military strikes in that country to protest with …

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Philanthropic Colonialism, Conscience Laundering, and Larry Summers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice August 15, 2013August 15, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   Buried in my stacks of old papers have been some nuggets of gold, and one was an op-ed written by Peter Buffett in the Times entitled “The Charitable-Industrial Complex.”  Buffett is identified as “a composer and a chairman of the NoVo Foundation,” but is clear that what gets him a seat at the …

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Dwolla, Lending Club, Housing, and Women Should Block Summers at the Fed

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure August 12, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  It is hard to believe that there is really a campaign in earnest to push Larry Summers as the new Chairmen of the Federal Reserve, and that President Obama seems to be somewhat supporting his candidacy.  Admittedly, the other front runner is a distinguished woman, the economist Janet Yellin, is also being targeted …

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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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