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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: Wilbur Mills Expressway Fight

Sprawling Roads to Nowhere

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues April 18, 2014April 18, 2014 by digital

Little Rock    These days planners and speculators would be hard pressed to imagine that they could figure out a way to easily intersect cities with ribbons of concrete dividing rich, poor, black and white, which is not to say there aren’t some still trying, but the public purposes are so obscure and the self-interest so …

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Remembering Elena Hanggi, Jack Lavey, and the Wilbur Mills Expressway Fight

ACORN Personal Writings April 5, 2014April 5, 2014 by digital

New Orleans  The obituary for Elena Hanggi Giddings said so little that it was almost hard for me to believe that this was the same woman I knew so well and so long.  Her stint as chair of the regional advisory board of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Dallas was acknowledged, along with her …

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