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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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Labor Missing From Our Day

Labor Organizing National Politics September 3, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  Maybe I’m still in post-hurricane mode, so have lost my perspective, but for the life of me the Romney/Republican “We Built It” line seems the coup de grace of labor and our unions’ demise.  Now “capital” in the face of Romney and the outrageousness of something like Bain, can not only claim they …

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Union Organizing Depressions in the Bay Area

Labor Organizing July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 by digital

San Francisco   One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival.  There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus on the full nature of …

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Just Cause: Saints Players and Union Should Challenge Penalties

Labor Organizing May 8, 2012May 8, 2012 by digital

New Orleans    Ok, yes, I live in New Orleans, and by law, I’m a Saints fan, so it will be hard for some readers not to think I might be biased, but the Saints players who have been suspended for different periods from captain and linebacker Jonathan Vilma for the whole season to lesser penalties …

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