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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>2026-05-18T15:30:42Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Adani Bait and Switch]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-05-18T15:30:42Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-18T15:30:42Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Corruption" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="India" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans,       We don’t regularly follow all of the times that billionaires and those who want to be are investigated or charged by the US or the Security and Exchange Commission for stock dealings, but we have kept our eyes on the cases involving Gautam Adani, reportedly now the richest man in India.  &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[A Participation Model to Fund Organizing]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-05-17T17:07:28Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-17T17:07:28Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Organizing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Organizing School" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       There’s no question.  A dues-based organizing model for community organizations and informal worker associations is a tough road to follow, even if all of the other variables are great.  Members pay for the organization; therefore, it’s theirs in ownership, participation, and governance.  This was the path that ACORN has travelled for &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New Directions for Animal Rights]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45477</id>
		<updated>2026-05-16T21:08:08Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-16T21:08:08Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="ACORN" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Organizing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Wade&#039;s World" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      When I think of animal rights two things come to mind.  One is the argument made by philosopher and advocate Paul Singer, whose books I have read, that make the case that they are sentient beings at many levels and deserving of attention and care for that reason.  The other is PETA, &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New Ways to Cancel and Purge Votes]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-05-16T02:15:05Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-16T02:15:05Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Louisiana" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Voting" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Voting Rights" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      My vote was canceled.  Yes, I know that’s not supposed to happen, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gutting the voting act and greenlighting gerrymandering to protect party majorities, it’s on.  Maybe not everywhere, but in red states where Republicans might not have already sewed up all of &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation…”]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45468</id>
		<updated>2026-05-14T18:10:11Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-14T18:10:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Gas Prices" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Inflation" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans     “Houston, we have a problem.”   Let me rephrase that…we have lots of problems.  That’s just my opinion though.  The president of the United States has a different take… …when Trump answered a question about whether he was motivated by the financial situation of Americans to make a deal to end the &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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