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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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New School Methods for Old School Tricks for Disappearing People

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care September 13, 2015 by digital

New Orleans    In the age of “big data” we are led to believe that eyes are everywhere on all of us. All is known by the all-knowing. NSA is up our nose. It goes on and on. Yet, somehow we are losing people. We lost more than 400,000 people on certifications under the Affordable Care …

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The Clock Keeps Ticking and Investigations Continue on Assange and Snowden

Ideas and Issues May 24, 2015 by digital

New Orleans     Whatever happened to Julian Assange of Wiki-leaks and Edward Snowden of NSA mega-leaks?  Well, Assange has now done 1000 days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he received political asylum, and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been given a 3-year visitor visa. Amazingly, though the investigations by the USA and …

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Spying through the Mail, How Last Century

Ideas and Issues October 29, 2014 by digital

New Orleans      The US Postal Service admitted that it had complied already this year with 50,000 different requests from local law enforcement authorities and national security folks for permission to open the mail of US citizens in search of nefarious schemes and hanky-panky.  Perhaps unrelated, and perhaps not, within days the US Postal Service also …

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All Demonstrations are Now Spying Opportunities All the Time

Ideas and Issues June 14, 2014 by digital

Dallas   We condemn China’s regular crackdowns of dissidents and many countries offer them safe harbor.  We cheer the courageous members of Pussy Riot in Russia or Femen in the Ukraine who have stood up to governments for the freedom of speech and the rights of women.  We are outraged at the military coups that subvert …

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Public Health is not a Privacy Breech for Citizen Protection and Disaster Prevention

Health Care May 16, 2014 by digital

Houston    We can’t have it both ways.  We can’t mourn the more than 1000 deaths in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina and condemn the government for not taking responsibility for the most vulnerable citizens without transportation or facing medical problems, and also say that the government should stand aside from his duty in order to protect …

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