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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>2026-10-06T16:43:23Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Book Bans and Librarians]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-06T16:43:23Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-06T16:43:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Library" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Local 100" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        Book bans are a conservative cause du jour in many parts of the country.  PEN America reports that there were over 12,000 books that were banned in public schools in 2025.  Texas and Florida are at the top of the leader board in this new censorship movement.  School administrators on the &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[La PAH, Horizontality, and the Spanish Housing Crisis]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-05T20:04:56Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-05T20:04:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Housing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Organizers Forum" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Protests" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Spain" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans   Even if we hadn’t just returned from visiting various organizations in Spain with the Organizers’ Forum, we would have been following the dramatic protests by thousands in Madrid who mobilized to turnback the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her apartment.  None of this solved the overall Spanish housing crisis and in &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Midterms &#8211; Believe It or Not]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-05T00:13:28Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-05T00:13:28Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Elections" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Polling" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       In the United States, we are only one-month away from the midterm elections.  Elections haven’t been going all that well for us on the big cycles in recent years, so we may have to relish some good news before the election with the full recognition that it may be a mirage.  &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Our Thin Line of AI Protection]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-04T15:16:50Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-04T15:16:50Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Toronto           “Another day, another dollar” might soon be replaced by another day, another bunch of AI agents go rogue. It sometimes seems, in one test after another of artificial intelligence, the agents can’t seem to remember their boundaries, find workarounds, and then spend time trying to cover their tracks and make up stuff.  It’s &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Pass Through Millionaires Everywhere]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=46018</id>
		<updated>2026-10-03T00:31:51Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-03T00:31:51Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Economics" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Toronto           I jumped on this book as soon as I saw the first mention within minutes it was on my Kindle.  I’m talking about “The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There” by economists Owen Zidar of Princeton University and Eric Zwick of the University of Chicago.  They &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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