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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Homeland Security Unbound
Reports on the broad and unconstitutional investigations launched by agents from US Homeland Security read like something from East Germany or the KGB files of years ago. Government agents unbound by law or ethics acting with impunity to surveil citizens involved in the simplest protest and…
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Utilities Lard Entitlements on Customers
The Wall Street Journal looked at reports from 1500 of the largest companies in the US. One of the things they found is that cumulatively these companies were paying over $600 million for perks for executives and board directors. Some of it was for security in the wake of the United…
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A Tech Turncoat on AI Boom
There are some not so subtle signs that our billionaire tech overlords are starting to come to grips with their overreach and loose lips in speculating about the good and bad of artificial intelligence. Communities across the country – and the world – have marshalled to pushback on such purpose-…
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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…