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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>2026-06-05T19:30:46Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Feeling the Heat]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-05T19:30:46Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-05T19:30:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="ACORN International" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Climate Change" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Ottawa          The calendar says June, so in New Orleans that means it is already summer.  It’s way pass that in India, where heat for gig workers and food vendors has been a huge issue already for months.  Talking to organizers in Paris this week they were caught in an early season heat wave &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Trump Bad for the World, but Good for the World?]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-05T19:23:07Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-05T19:23:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="United States" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Ottawa            Trump is doing everything he can to degrade the United States in the eyes of American citizens and the world.  We’ve now gone through more than a year of new wars, constant threats, sickening corruption and self-dealing, autocratic narcissism, and more as the list is endless.  Foreigners are blocked at the borders, denied &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Less a Blink than a Wink]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-03T19:12:06Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-03T19:12:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Corruption" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        This is a one-finger clap at some good news.  After pushback from his own party and almost everyone else in the US and across the world, the White House has been signaling for several days that Trump was backing off the $1.8 billion slush fund.  The Department of Justice and its &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Backstory on a Sleaze Bucket]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-02T22:49:23Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-02T22:49:23Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        Rumor has it that Trump is increasingly coming to recognize that the gale winds of opposition from all corners, including his own Republicans, have made the $1.8 billion slush fund created for his pleasure and distribution politically untenable. They may let it die a slow death thanks the federal judge who &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Stuck at the Bargaining Table]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-02T14:43:09Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-02T14:43:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Labor Organizing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Unions" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       Several years ago there seemed to a spurt of union organizing success in unusual places.  The results were impressive.  More than 500 Starbucks stores have organized.  Amazon workers in a Staten Island warehouse won an election.  Even REI coop retail workers won elections.  Spoiler alert.  This is the story of the &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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