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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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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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Counting Calories

Ideas and Issues November 25, 2014November 26, 2014 by digital

New Orleans     The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, is finally laying out the rules required by the Affordable Care Act for various kinds of food delivery and preparation establishments to reveal the number of calories on various items. When it comes to restaurants, this is mainly for the big guys with twenty of more locations. …

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