No, Gretta! Ja tink???
Talk about being slow to connect the dots! OF COURSE they know each other!
We have some very smart FReepers here. She will have her anwser before morning I’m sure! Go get em’ guys.
ACORN ....Bill Ayres....Obama......the circle is becoming complete....
Not that anyone in the MSM or the ignorant (liberal) voter cares......
You’ve gotta see this!
They have even published what their strategy is. Wake up, Democrats.
http://waderathke.com/index.php?id=76
Wade Rathke, the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International and SEIU Local 100, has close to 40 years of experience. 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”.
Early Organizing
Wade Rathke has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning social justice, workers rights, and a democracy over the last 40 years, where “the people shall rule”.
Rathke began his career as an organizer for the NWRO (National Welfare Rights Organization) in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the direction of George Wiley. After beginning in the NWRO, Rathke started an organization in Arkansas that would have a base in the general community, not just welfare recipients. Rathke’s initiative in Arkansas eventually grew into ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) the largest organization of lower income and working families in the United States. Founded in 1970, ACORN now has over 500,000 dues-paying families spread throughout more than one hundred cities. ACORN’s mission is to win “a bigger voice and fairer share for low and moderate income families”. Through the hard work of hundreds of community organizers and thousands of community leaders across the country, ACORN has won landmark victories in the areas of community reinvestment, fair lending, living wages, education reform, environmental justice, and other issues. The ACORN family of organizations includes radio stations (KNON and KABF), publications, housing development and ownership (ACORN Housing), and a variety of other supports for direct organizing and issue campaigns, such as Project Vote and the Living Wage Resource Center. Besides being ACORN’s Founder, Wade served as Chief Organizer for ACORN from 1970 to 2008: 38 years!
ACORN International has expanded rapidly as well over the last year, with operations in countries as diverse as Canada, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, and India, and emerging projects in Kenya and Ecuador and partnerships in Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines. ACORN International’s unique style of grassroots, membership based community organizing has found traction in places from squatter communities in Latin America all the way to the diverse cities of India, including Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore. ACORN International also supports direct low wage worker organizing with among waste pickers in Delhi and hawkers in Mumbai.
Wade also was the founder and is the Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union, working with members in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas in 1980. Over the last several years he has directed the WARN project, a joint community-labor effort engaging Wal-Mart’s expansion in Florida, California, India and Mexico.
Through WARN and the Community Labor Organizing Center (CLOC), Wade and his team provide research, campaign, and organizing assistance through consultancies and contracts for a series of critical labor, community, and other campaigns for unions, immigrant rights, and community organizations both domestically and internationally from offices in New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Wade is also the Chair of the Organizers’ Forum, which brings together labor and community organizers for two dialogues per year, one domestic and one international. The Organizers’ Forum is a project of the Tides Center. Wade was a founding board member of the Tides Foundation and continues to serve as a board member of the San Francisco-based Tides and for a number of their entities including the Paradox Fund and the Frontera Fund.
Wade is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Social Policy, a quarterly magazine for scholars and activists. He has written regularly for the New Labor Forum as well as recent essays in There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster, edited by Gregory Squires and Chester Hartman about organizing in the aftermath of Katrina, Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein proposing a way to organize Wal-Mart workers in an association, and American Crises, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril, edited by Antony Dunbar on the failure of labor to organize the South and what could have been done about it differently. Wade has a forthcoming essay on “Sweat and Social Change,” ACORN at 35 Years, edited by Robert Fisher for the Vanderbilt Press. Wade has two forthcoming books expected in Spring of 2009 with Verso Press on The Battle for the Lower 9th: ACORN and the Rebuilding of New Orleans, and with Berrett-Koehler on Citizen Wealth: How Community Groups are Working Themselves and the Working Poor out of Poverty.
Many keep up with Wade, his work, travels, and what’s on his mind and in front of his eyes through his daily blog at www.chieforganizer.org. He can be reached most easily at wade@chieforganizer.org.
Wade Rathke and his family live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
ACORN
Rathke’s initiative in Arkansas eventually grew into ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) the largest organization of lower income and working families in the United States. Founded in 1970, ACORN now has over 230,000 dues-paying families spread in 100 American cities. ACORN’s mission is to win “a bigger voice and fairer share for low and moderate income families”. Through the hard work of hundreds of community organizers and thousands of community leaders across the country, ACORN has won landmark victories in the areas of community reinvestment, fair lending, living wages, education reform, environmental justice, and other issues.
The ACORN family of organizations includes radio stations (KNON and KABF), publications, housing development and ownership (ACORN Housing), and a variety of other supports for direct organizing and issue campaigns, such as Project Vote and the Living Wage Resource Center.
ACORN International has recently begun organizing in Canada, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Nigeria.
Union Organizing
In 1980, union organizing in the U.S. was close to moribund, Rathke and other ACORN organizers started an independent union organizing effort called the United Labor Organizations, and, later, United Labor Unions. In New Orleans, Rathke organized an independent union of Hyatt employees. The New Orleans union later affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 1984, founding SEIU Local 100, AFL-CIO.
Today, SEIU Local 100, which is headquartered in New Orleans with operations in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana.. Local 100 has organized public sector public workers, including school employees, Head Start, and health care workers, as well as lower wage private sector workers in the hospitality, janitorial, and other service industries.
Rathke served three terms as Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO. He was the president and co- founder of the SEIU Southern Conference, and served for eight years as member of the International Executive Board of SEIU.
Rathke is currently engaged in driving the multinational and community project WARN (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now) in Florida, California, and elswhere to prove that Wal-Mart expansion can be stopped in addition to the Wal-Mart Workers Association in Florida that has established that other Wal-Mart workers will join and organize their own association on the job.
Promoting Organizing
Seeking to create a sense of community among organizing traditions and networks, Rathke founded the Organizers’ Forum in 2000. The Organizers Forum brings together senior organizers in labor and community organizations in dialogues about challenges faced by constituency-based organizations, such as tactical development, organizing new immigrants, using technology, utilizing capital strategies and corporate campaign techniques, or understanding the impacts and organizing challenges of globalization.
Rathke is a longtime member of the Tides Foundation Board of Directors, and Board Chair of the Tides Center, which provides core management services to new and existing nonprofit organizations promoting social change.
Publications
Rathke has published articles and commentaries on organizing, direct action tactics, revitalizing the union movement, and other topics in publications like Social Policy, Boston Review of Books, the Nation, Clamor, and others. He now serves as publisher and Editor in Chief for Social Policy, and maintains a blog at www.chieforganizer.org.
In 2006, Rathke contributed chapters to two books. The first, There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster, covers the response to the Hurricane Katrina and offers a critical and comprehensive social portrait of the disaster's catastrophic effects on New Orleans. Wade Rathke contributes with his chapter on “The Role of Local Organizing” in which he discusses the importance of grassroots organizations in attempting to help low- to moderate-income families recover after Hurricane Katrina. The second, Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, examines the largest employer outside the U.S. government with regards to both its negative and positive effects on a range of topics, from discrimination to economics and renders an assessment of the corporation from a scholarly perspective. Wade Rathke contributes with his chapter on “A Wal-Mart Workers Association? An Organizing Plan” in which he discusses the limitations of unionization in the US and what is needed to respond proactively to meet the demands of American workers and serve as a model for other unions both domestically and internationally.
Wade Rathke lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ratheke, ACORN embezzler. He embezzled OUR money!
Wade Rathke (born August 5, 1948) is the founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100. He was ACORN’s chief organizer from its founding in 1970 until he stepped down June 2, 2008.[1] Rathke and his wife, Beth Butler, live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rathke attended Williams College, a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from 1965 to 1968.[2] A member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),[citation needed] he dropped out in 1968 to join the anti-draft movement.[3]
wickypedia
The SDS (students for democractic society) were an above ground, legitimate group of wannabe radical socialists, who infiltrated campuses around the country. They were responsible for the campus mayhem, and instigated the Kent State riots. The SDS wanted to be far more violent but needed to maintain their credentials inorder to continue their organizing and propaganda. The weather underground is nothing more than the same SDS people who took credit for their illegal activities under the guise of the WU. They were also aligned with the Black Panthers.
BTW, Greta is not as great as your title suggests.
PING! I thought of how good you are at this stuff...so just wanted to ping you to the thread! Keep me posted if you find anything!
There are zero degrees of separation between Wright, Obama, and three executed members of TUCC who's deaths are still unsolved. Has any reporter sought out Wright, Obama, other members of TUCC, or the Chicago Police Department to “help solve” these crimes with the one-year anniversary coming up just before the inauguration.
Anyone looking into these connections will trip over Larry Sinclair which has become the “third rail” of this campaign since there are direct factual ties to Delaware AG Beau Biden.
So, I guess this whole issue has been successfully eliminated from any sane or calm discourse of “Who Is Barry”?
Girlangler posted this article earlier today about Acorn trying to ‘distance’ itself from it’s founder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/us/16acorn.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the article:
Two board members and Bertha Lewis, the organization’s interim chief organizer, or chief executive, met last week in New Orleans to hammer out a deal with the founder, Wade Rathke, according to board members who learned Tuesday of the talks. Mr. Rathke resigned as chief organizer after it became public this summer that his brother Dale had embezzled almost $1 million from the organization eight years ago.
Mr. Rathke retained control of Acorn International, however, and maintained its offices in buildings in New Orleans shared by Acorn and many of its 174 affiliates. Foundations that support Acorn financially, as well as many of the 51 voting members of its board, have been critical of that arrangement, saying it allows Mr. Rathke to retain his influence over the organization. The deal, as described by board members, would hand Mr. Rathke control of the Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now, or WARN, an Acorn affiliate that focuses on what it considers to be unfair labor practices and other issues at Wal-Mart, and a radio station in Texas that is one of five media companies affiliated with Acorn, according to board members critical of the negotiations.
Whatever anyone finds had best be cached immediately — this stuff will go down a rathole as fast as Lefty fingers can type once they figure out that links are being traced.
In 1970, one of George Wiley’s protégés, Wade Rathke — like Bill Ayers, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) — was sent to found the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. While NWRO had made a good start, it alone couldn’t accomplish the Cloward-Piven goals. Rathke’s group broadened the offensive to include a wide array of low income “rights.” Shortly thereafter they changed “Arkansas” to “Association of” and ACORN went nationwide.
ACORN is at the forefront of this movement as well, and was a leading organization among a broad coalition of radical groups, including Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Service Employees International Union (ACORN founder Wade Rathke also runs a SEIU chapter), and others, that became the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Wade Rathke runs a Tides subsidiary, the Tides Center.
The President of his Open Society Institute is Aryeh Neier, founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As mentioned above, three other former SDS members had extensive contact with Obama: Bill Ayers, Carl Davidson and Wade Rathke.
At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder and chief organizer Wade Rathke and his brother, Dale. Wade Rathke is an almost legendary figure in progressive Left circles. Beginning in the Sixties as an SDS activist, he would go on to apply his talents to the National Welfare Rights Organization, whose principle legacy during its years of existence was a large expansion of welfare eligibility and dependency. Out of this experience came ACORN in 1970. Initially based in Little Rock and eventually in New Orleans, ACORN has become a giant oak tree. The group’s early agitprop rhetoric, as expressed in its People’s Platform, made clear its intent for the years ahead:
The SEIU is supposed to be representing their rank-and-file. The upper ranks of the union have sold-out their members and have become lackeys for the DNC. Union members should rise up and tell their Union to stop squandering their dues subsidizing the crack-pots scams of their delusional Union Heads, or better yet, they should withhold their dues until they get some action.
Wade Rathke is the Chief Organizer of ACORN International, Founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN (1970-2008), and Founder and Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union. The views expressed on this website are his own.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2107475/posts?page=1