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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: voting rights

Voting Access and Suppression Are Big Issues Everywhere

Ideas and Issues April 2, 2021 by Chief Organizer

April 2, 2021 New Orleans               Georgia has managed to grab a lot of attention as the first state to successfully torpedo voting rights after the 2020 election, and goodness knows it deserves all the shame, derision, and boycotts that are coming its way. Reporters for the New York Times listed …

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Restoring Voting Rights to Former Felons

Ideas and Issues March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 by Chief Organizer

March 17, 2021 New Orleans      In these times when a number of states are trying to curtail voting rights for their citizens, the governor of Virginia made some news by speeding up the process for former felons to vote in that state. By making the review of a former prisoner’s status immediately after release …

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Using ACORN as the Smokescreen for Voter Suppression

ACORN August 10, 2017August 11, 2017 by digital

Salina, KN   Here’s a change of pace while we’re wending out way from Wyoming dry lands to Louisiana wetland. A piece by John Atlas and Peter Drier ran in Salon that is worth sharing it seems to me to get some context in what is now contemporary history of voter suppression since this pig is …

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Is Demographics Destiny in a Democracy?

Ideas and Issues National Politics Organizing Voting Rights June 30, 2013June 30, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   On a radio interview I conducted on Friday discussing the impact of the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions, the young man poignantly spoke about the isolation of young homosexuals in rural areas, compared to the relative freedom in the cities, even conservative cities. I then noticed a map in the Wall Street Journal …

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Pigs Flying in Florida as Even Republicans Call for Voting Reforms

Ideas and Issues January 19, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   Yes, it snows in July in Florida.  Yes, pigs are on the runway in Miami getting ready to fly, and it is not because of loosening travel restrictions in Cuba, but because finally after more than a dozen years of being the case study for anti-democratic vote suppression and election chaos, even Republican governor …

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