Full Name
Wade Rathke
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Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International as well as Local 100 United Labor Unions and the Publisher of Social Policy magazine. Wade is also the founder, and served as the Chief Organizer of ACORN for 39 years.
He has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning social justice, workers rights, and a democracy where “the people shall rule”.
Recent Articles by Author
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Patriotism Has Value
Traveling around the world, there’s no question that Trump has made it harder to be American. There has always been a fair amount of explaining involved, but there’s no way to rationalize the inexplicable and indefensible, except to note that we are all involved in fighting for freedom in our home…
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Birthright Citizenship Decision Still Coming
As the US Supreme Court ends this term and releases a torrent of decisions before taking off on its European vacation from July through August, I kept looking for the long-awaited decision on the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. A torrent of decisions was…
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Supreme Court Brings the Immigration War to all Communities
I hope Trump, Miller, ICE and all the haters have a great celebration about their Supreme Court’s greenlight for the president to end of temporary protective status for Haitians and Syrians. I’d make a bet this is going to be a case of maybe “they should have been careful about what they wished for…
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Can You Hear the Warning Siren?
Many news reports are out now reminding all of us about the tragedies wrought by flash floods in the Texas Hill Country a year ago that hit youth camps and other communities with terrible death and damage. A report on the precautions at Camp Mystic, where more than 25 children were lost, indicated…