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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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How Breitbart and Bannon Work Their Politics Using Innuendo and Random Association

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice October 22, 2017October 23, 2017 by digital

New Orleans   You know Google Alerts, right? If not, it’s worth a spin around their block. You put your email on a list to get a daily, weekly, or monthly email that gives you some of the hits on things within your wheelhouse. I have alerts for “community organization” of course. I have one …

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Fifteen Dollars for Fast Food Workers – More to Come?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Organizing July 23, 2015 by digital

New Orleans   Fast food workers in New York State got some great news after a three year campaign. The wage review board set up by Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced, as expected, that it will recommend a $15 wage for many fast food workers in New York State. The increase, once approved will stair step …

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People Analytics: Managing Labor and Space

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice March 16, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   Sure it helps that Google makes more money than God, and, yes, I have to wonder whether Google will still look like a cross between a day care center and an upscale college campus in 20 years, but they have a point and a huge platform on which to make it that can’t help …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

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