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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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The Challenges of Community Radio as a Voice of Regular People

ACORN ACORN International March 1, 2013 by digital

Little Rock    KABF is a 29-year old noncommercial radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas.  The station is 88.3 on the FM side of the dial with 100,000 watts of full power broadcasting throughout central Arkansas and depending on the topography much of the state to the east and south, running downhill towards the delta. The …

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Remembering the Great Art Martin

ACORN Labor Organizing Organizing August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock.  The …

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Fighting for the Last Housing Project, Marshall Islands Arkansas, Chinese Enviros

Ideas and Issues July 5, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  I went to sleep with firecrackers booming over the Mississippi River and woke up to chickens crowing in the yard next door, but it helps get me out of bed and on the road to Memphis and to working with citizens’ groups and others in the Bluff City, trying to make the redevelopment …

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