Skip to content
  • Home
  • About & Bio
  • The Organizer Documentary
  • Organizations
  • Training
  • Video
  • Press
  • Writings >
    • Books
  • Radio
  • Contact

The Chief Organizer Blog

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".

Tag: Trump Administration

Border Wall Tactics and Negotiating Postures

Ideas and Issues January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 by digital

New Orleans    I had a scheduled call yesterday with a young man, now in the Bay Area of California, who had read something I had written, sent me an email, and asked if I would be willing to talk to him about “tactics,” as he called it.  The call turned out to be wide ranging …

Continue Reading

“Poor Me” Misses Impact of Shutdown on Real People

Ideas and Issues December 25, 2018December 25, 2018 by digital

Valle de Bravo      In President Trump’s world, where it’s “all about me,” he seems to believe that he made the supreme sacrifice of staying home for the holidays in the White House rather than heading to Mar de Lago, his exclusive resort property in Florida.  Like many on a stay-cation, he has spent way too …

Continue Reading

There is a Sell-By Date on Trump’s Shtick

Ideas and Issues November 22, 2018 by digital

New Orleans     This sounds crazy, but I honestly and truly believe we are coming to the outer limits of the American peoples’ willingness to continue to tolerate Trump’s constant harangues and grievances.  Maybe that’s wrong.  The hardest core of his base loves the harangues and shares the grievances.  Where we are coming to a …

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Follow Us

Facebooktwitterlinkedinyoutubeinstagramfoursquare

Email Subscription to Blog

Join 2,232 other subscribers

RSS follow along in a feed reader

  • China Far Away
  • Not the King and I, the King and Us
  • 1984 Doublespeak 2025 Style
  • Lessons for Democrats from ACORN Attack
  • Coalition and Campaign Organizers

Blog Stats

  • 133,175 hits

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

  • ACORN International
  • ACORN International on Facebook
  • Books by Wade
  • Organizers Forum
  • Social Policy
  • Twitter
  • ULU Local 100

Interviews with Wade Rathke

04/16/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

Corporate Knights: The Magazine for Clean Capitalism

Intrepid Liberal Journal

The Peter B Collins Show

For Original Writing by Wade Click Here

The Other Side of the News
Facebook Twitter Instagram Rss
© 2025 The Chief Organizer Blog – MinaLite theme by ZThemes