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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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Pity the Poor Immigrant

ACORN ACORN International February 21, 2018February 21, 2018 by digital

  Banska Bystrica     Traveling across Slovakia and listening to my guide, I recalled the contradictions of Bob Dylan’s song, “I pity the poor immigrant,” where he is both sympathetic to the plight of immigrants and suspicious of them.     I pity the poor immigrant Whose strength is spent in vain Whose heaven is like …

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Syria and Summers Prove the Power of No

Ideas and Issues September 16, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  The progressive forces can suddenly count coup on the Obama Administration over two issues in the matter of recent weeks for both economic progressives and anti-war advocates.             The irony of having a Nobel Peace Prize winning President caught in a web of his own weaving and left with only military options in …

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Counting the Votes against Larry Summers at the Federal Reserve

DC Politics Financial Justice September 7, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration.   The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the United Nations Security Council or a majority of the G-20 largest industrial countries to back military strikes in that country to protest with …

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Watching Al Jazeera in Africa

ACORN International International March 29, 2011March 30, 2011 by wade

Nairobi Al Jazeera was not the channel of choice for international news in Nairobi this trip over CNN or BBC, but it had become the only choice.  Frankly, it was a valuable, fascinating, and worthwhile experience.  It was actually more likable to hear American and Australian accents along with the British on Al Jazeera-English, and …

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