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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: New York

Who’s Really Wins and How Do Ranked Choice Mayor’s Govern?

Ideas and Issues June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 by Chief Organizer

June 24, 2021 Little Rock      New York City is a Democratic town, despite the fact that until the recent two terms of Mayor Bill de Blasio, there had been a long run of Republican mayors from Rudy Giuliani to Michael Bloomberg.  Given that fact, the Democratic primary pretty much is the whole game.  Win that, …

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Voting on the Working Family Party Ballot Line

ACORN Voting Rights September 15, 2020 by digital

New Orleans      New Yorkers are lucky.  Not only do they get to vote with relatively little hassle, but they get to send important messages to politicians about where they stand by voting on unique ballot lines that identify their politics not in broad strokes, but along sharp edges.  Why? Because New York State remains …

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New Housing Law in New York Having Huge Impact on Tenant Evictions

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice December 4, 2019December 5, 2019 by digital

New Orleans       The Wall Street Journal and its reporters must get a special thrill when they can score an exclusive on the New York Times on New York’s own turf.  I bet they didn’t even care when they went out to celebrate last week at their local watering hole that their billionaire owner, Rupert …

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One Billboard in Troy, New York

Ideas and Issues August 3, 2019August 5, 2019 by digital

New Orleans   New York is making a horse’s butt of itself. A woman, named Kat Sullivan, put up a billboard last year in Troy, New York, near where she went to school in the 1990s at the private Emma Willard School there.  She put up others last year in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  She also hired …

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Lessons from Greece, Spain, and Chicago for Progressives

National Politics Organizing April 22, 2015April 22, 2015 by digital

New Orleans        Recently Dan Cantor, the long-time head of the Working Families Party of New York and now director of their multi-state efforts to create a progressive alternative party, co-authored a piece that ran in the publication, In These Times, about lessons we could learn from the electoral victories of Syriza in Greece and the …

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