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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>2026-08-07T00:13:59Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Latest Efforts to Gut the CRA]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-07T00:13:59Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-07T00:13:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Investments" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls       Almost fifty years ago, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act or CRA seeking to close the door on bank and lender redlining and open up the prospects for homeownership for millions of lower income families.  ACORN used Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data and the CRA to negotiation agreements with banks &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[World Social Forum Blocked in Benin]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-05T22:09:26Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-05T22:09:26Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls       The World Social Forum originated in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, twenty-five years ago.  Claiming that “another world is possible”, the WSF attracted great interest in its early years with thousands of participants and addresses from Brazil’s Lula de Silva, Naom Chomsky, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez back in the day.  Initially, &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Crying Wolf]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-05T22:07:02Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-05T22:07:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls     When it comes to Trump these days, it’s hard to pick which moral from a children’s tale best fits how domestically and internationally he is seen and heard these days.  Is it the boy who keeps crying wolf so often that no one listens to his bellowing anymore, so that he &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Other Side of Resilience]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-04T16:14:37Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-04T16:14:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Wade&#039;s World" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls        Living in New Orleans more than twenty years after Katrina, we continue to be ground zero for discussions about rising water and the perils of climate change and global warming.  Recently, a Tulane University real estate professor got a lot of publicity on the issue of rising water here and elsewhere.  &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Weaponizing the Internet Against Us]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45776</id>
		<updated>2026-08-02T15:46:44Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-02T15:46:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Internet" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Surveillance" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="War" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls        The internet is now regularly making all the lists of top ten inventions in civilization contributing to our modern world.  Who can deny it?  Who among us can now live without it?  Artificial intelligence is contending for a place on the list, to both applause and anguish.  The concern is how &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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