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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>2026-09-08T00:50:05Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Where’s the Charity?]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-09-08T00:50:05Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-08T00:50:05Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Philanthropy" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      As the divide between the rich and rest of us widens by the day, it’s a fair question to ask what is happening to charity?  Philanthropy at major league levels is based on favorable tax treatment, so why don’t we see money, money, money everywhere for nonprofits? Going through a spate of &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[More Mail Ballot Mayhem]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45923</id>
		<updated>2026-09-07T14:09:26Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-07T14:09:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Ballot" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Voting" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      As Trump continues to flail at mail ballots without evidence, claiming the way that one-third of the US votes is somehow not secure and contributes to questionable results, the beat goes on.  His executive order has been barred by federal judges and is headed to the Supreme Court.  North Carolina has already &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Chief Organizer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Begin a Draft to End a War]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45918</id>
		<updated>2026-09-07T14:06:13Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-07T14:06:13Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="War" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      The story of the sixties is contentious.  Some of the social and cultural changes lie just below the surface of current political debates and controversies. Some people are embittered.  Some are nostalgic.  There is one common experience that is a central truth for the sixties generation and that is war as a &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Chief Organizer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Organizing Problem of Momentum]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45913</id>
		<updated>2026-09-04T18:36:39Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-04T18:36:39Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Amazon" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Organizing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Starbucks" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Unions" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      Amazon continues to specialize in stalling the bargaining in the one large warehouse win in Staten Island.  The worker-led independent union has now switched leadership and affiliated with the Teamsters.  This is a global union interest, but increasingly out of focus for lack of forward motion.  Starbucks baristas continue to record organizing &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Food Stamp Disaster Through a Data-deaf Callous Lens]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45909</id>
		<updated>2026-09-04T18:26:10Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-04T18:26:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="SNAP" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      The editorial page crew at the Wall Street Journal in the privacy of their own offices and clubs probably still believes that the world is flat, women shouldn’t vote, majority rule is debatable, and cranial size might still be a good way to judge race and ethnicity.  They definitely have no interest &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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