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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Esther’s Army
Talking to Katie Gaddini about her “I spy” sociological study of how conservative, largely evangelical Christian women were increasingly become the backbone of MAGA support was an eye opener. Gaddini had spent almost a decade interviewing people who were both big and small in the movement in order…
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FBI Intimidating Voter Registration in Ohio
Yikes, it’s déjà vu all over again. I got an email and then an invitation to a zoom radio broadcast. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group I knew and had actually done some workshops with in Youngstown some years ago, had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department over voter…
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If This is the Deal, Why the War?
Trump has taken a victory lap, announcing a tentative agreement with Iran to end the war. This declaration by Trump is way too reminiscent of George W. Bush’s appearance on a US aircraft carrier to claim victory on May 1, 2003 by announcing “Mission Accomplished” and the end to the Iraq War, which…
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Blocking Narcissism and Grift
Maybe, just maybe, there are limits to the fawning by the Republican US Congress and the level of corruption and grift that Trump and his family are allowed. I hesitate to generalize because with this crew, it’s whack-a-mole with more that crops up even as restrictions are imposed elsewhere.…