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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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Celebrating Wage Increases and Asking Santa for More in the Future

ACORN Citizen Wealth Labor Organizing December 24, 2011 by wade

            New Orleans               ACORN was a great organization and some of the gifts from its membership to their neighbors and co-workers keep on giving, despite the fact that the organization shut its doors 13 months ago in the United States. No better example can be found in the automatic increases …

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Collective Bargaining Under Attack

Labor Organizing National Politics February 22, 2011 by wade

New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin.  After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a group, so I’ve been inundated with hyperbolic messages that find the pushback in Wisconsin by labor heroic and …

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