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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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Gene Sharp, Nonviolence Evangelist

Ideas and Issues February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 by digital

New Orleans     Gene Sharp was not well-known, except where it mattered, and that was among the groups of activists here and abroad who tried to strategize about how to make change when faced with oppressive, often dictatorial, governments against amazing odds.  He wrote a shelf full of books about nonviolence.  Evangelizing, theorizing, and advising on …

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Stealing Land Because They Can in Manzanales

ACORN International May 19, 2011May 19, 2011 by wade

Tegucigalpa Coming back from a visit with our friends at the women’s coffee cooperative in Marcala having both taken important steps forward in our emerging relationship as well as enjoyed their hospitality with a great experience on staying and meeting on the mountains, we drove back along the three hour construction site that marks entering …

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