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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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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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WFP Knows the Rules: Save the Party First, Endorse the Candidates Second

ACORN June 1, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   The headlines were all topspin, which is the way most people follow politics.  The influential and growing political force in New York State, the Working Families Party, had made a deal, significantly brokered by the new Mayor of New York, and longtime WFP and New Party activist, Bill de Blasio, and would now …

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Working Families on the Move

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Organizing January 3, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   Luckily we were able to catch up with Dan Cantor on Wade’s World this week.  Dan is the national director of Working Families now after spending most of the last fifteen years as executive director of the Working Families Party of New York.  The WFP, as it’s known, garnered a lot of attention …

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De Blasio Wins with the “Left Walk” in New York City Mayor’s Race

Ideas and Issues September 12, 2013 by digital

Baton Rouge  The “Gotham” columnist for the New York Times, Michael Powell gave proper credit not just to Bill de Blasio for his seemingly out-of-nowhere broad based support and victory in the Democratic primary race for Mayor of New York City with this “tale of two cities” appeal, but also appropriately to the Working Families …

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Remembering Carlos Guerra and La Raza Unida

Ideas and Issues Immigration Reform February 6, 2011February 7, 2011 by wade

New Orleans         I was sitting in a staff meeting two weeks ago and casually mentioned that my friend Carlos Guerra had said to me on the phone that he got more response from notes that he would post on Facebook than the silence he would sometimes get from columns he wrote for many years for …

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