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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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People Want to Talk about Squatting

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 21, 2018May 22, 2018 by digital

Oakland    Over the last several days of screening THE ORGANIZER, I’ve noticed something interesting that is piquing peoples’ interest more and more about the movie.  Our friends in Bulgaria translated the movie so that they could run captions in their language at a screening in Sofia, and I skyped in for the Q&A.  Again, in …

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Is Squatting Back? No, It Never Stopped!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure May 16, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   There was a breathless article in the New York Times with a Las Vegas dateline purporting to have found something new under the sun, at least the desert sun, and the discovery was squatters. The sources attesting to the fact that the sky was falling and the horror of it all were, unsurprisingly, …

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Land and Community Struggles in Choloma

ACORN ACORN International International Organizing May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 by digital

San Pedro Sula   Our ACORN International delegation spent our first day visiting with members and leaders of ACORN Honduras in the abutting city of Choloma where we have almost a half-dozen affiliated organizations.  Choloma is an industrial suburb to an industrial city.  The motto on the signs as the bus crossed into Choloma called the …

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