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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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Fifty Million Poor on the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff

Citizen Wealth DC Politics Financial Justice Foreclosure Health Care November 15, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   With all of the chatter about this so-called fiscal “cliff,” it seems the real danger is not to the poor rich, who might have to start paying at least a little more of their fair share of taxes, but to the real poor who are being threatened directly with every word out of …

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Obama Campaign Scientists Try to Spin Basic ACORN-style Community Organizing Methodologies

ACORN Community Organizing November 13, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    More than 40 years ago I used to go downtown a couple of times a week to the Walgreens on Main Street and drink very cheap, very bad coffee with an Arkansas political savant named Max Allison.  Max was a behind the scene political operator.  He had run the campaigns that first elected …

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Leaving Bolivia

International Organizers Forum Organizing September 29, 2012 by digital

Lima   Cochabamba is a very pleasant city in many ways, but La Paz and El Alto are what’s happening as unique political, social, and cultural environments which are hard to duplicate in the rest of the world.  The strategic and tactical power of El Alto over the country, because of its geographical stranglehold and emergence and …

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