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	<title type="text">The Chief Organizer Blog</title>
	<subtitle type="text">WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of &#34;Nuts &#38; Bolts&#34;, &#34;Citizen Wealth&#34;, &#34;Global Grassroots&#34;, and &#34;The Battle for the 9th Ward&#34;.</subtitle>

	<updated>2026-05-11T16:02:32Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Home and Community Meet Disasters]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-05-11T16:02:32Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-11T16:02:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="a community voice" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Louisiana" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       A recent study produced by Yale researchers had some grim news for people living in New Orleans that can be succinctly summarizes as “run for the hills.”  With climate change and water rising, their predictions were dour and put the city with water, water, everywhere by 2100.  More than twenty years &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Going Down the Dark Hole with Breitbart and Alinsky]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45447</id>
		<updated>2026-05-10T23:05:01Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-10T23:05:01Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      This is one of those multiple degrees of separation things that takes twists and turns between politics, conspiracy, and the general bizarre linking Andrew Breitbart, the rightwing provocateur, whose name survives still in a whack website he founded, Saul Alinksy, the legendary community organizing icon, and, as it turned out, someone caught &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Smelling Salts and Lightning]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-05-09T20:20:07Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-09T20:19:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Environment" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      Sometimes I find myself just wondering about this and that, take for example lightning, thunder, and smelling salts. In the middle of the night, lightning was brightening the room followed by loud, deep roars of thunder.  From childhood, I’ve counted 1001 between every roar to tell me how far away the lightning &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[War’s Hitting Lower Waged Workers Worse]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45438</id>
		<updated>2026-05-08T15:13:02Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-08T15:13:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Energy" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Gas Prices" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Inequity" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Inflation" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="War" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it.  The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil.  While they weaned off, they were basically financing &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[SPLC Case is More Weaponization of Justice Department]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45435</id>
		<updated>2026-05-07T20:41:04Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-07T20:41:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Politics" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      The plot thickens as the accused finally speaks via court filings.  What am I talking about?  Well, I’m still bird dogging, as best I can, the accusations against the well-regarded and well-known civil rights organization the Southern Poverty Law Center.  I’ve never been a fan and cheerleader for lawyers, but right is &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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