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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".

Tag: Vietnam War

Draft Resisters as the Anti-War Freedom Riders

Organizing November 6, 2017 by digital

New Orleans   I was surprised recently when I saw a note mentioning the 50th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967 in Washington, D.C., one of the seminal events of the anti-war protests against the Vietnam War. We’re seeing a lot of these golden jubilee events these days. It was …

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The Vietnam War Nightmares Continue

International Organizers Forum April 11, 2015April 13, 2015 by digital

New Orleans       So many wars, so little time.   We have come to the point where when someone asks an American “about the war,” we have to say, “Which one?”   One of the two Iraq wars?  Afghanistan and its continuing and unending conflicts?  Like I said, which one?  For people of a certain age though the …

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Coming to Grips with Elite Public High Schools

Personal Writings March 5, 2012 by digital

New Orleans     Some of my class at Benjamin Franklin High School came together over the weekend in New Orleans to celebrate largely surviving over the many years since we graduated.   Our class stood for something though it’s unclear how well.  Our class had been the first public high school class to be integrated in New …

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