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Content Area Wade Rathke at the U of M on Monday, November 23rd at
6:30 pm (Yes, next week!)? Sponsored by UM Graduate City and Regional
Planning and SUAPP
A Katherine Lambert-Pennington (almbrtpn)

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Hi Dan:

Would you mind posting this public lecture announcement to the Anthro
Club list-serve?

Thanks

Dr. L-P


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Subject: Wade Rathke at the U of M on Monday, November 23rd at 6:30 pm
(Yes, next week!)? Sponsored by UM Graduate City and Regional Planning
and SUAPP



November 18, 2009

Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to join the students, faculty, staff, and
alumni of the U of M Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning
and the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy on Monday, November
23, 2009 at 6:30 pm for an important public lecture by Wade Rathke,
Founder and long-time Chief Organizer, for the Association of
Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN). Wade’s presentation
“Common Wealth: The Campaign to Save Working Families” will focus on
state and local policies designed to promote both economic growth and
social equity. Wade’s lecture will take place in the Amphitheatre of
the Fogelman Executive Conference Center on The University of Memphis
Main Campus.

Rathke began his organizing career in the late 1960s assisting the
late-George Wiley in establishing the National Welfare Rights
Organization. In 1974, Rathke moved from Washington, DC to Little
Rock, Arkansas to establish a state-wide citizen organization of poor
and working class families. The success of the Arkansas Community
Organization for Reform Now on a variety of environmental, economic,
and social issues prompted Rathke and others to establish the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as a
national citizen action organization advocating economic and social
equity for the poor. Over time, ACORN’s success on such national
issues as bank redlining, workers’ right to know, environmental racism
and justice, and living wage legislation has enabled ACORN to develop
a membership of more than 318,000 dues-paying families.

In addition to his work as founder of ACORN, Rathke helped organize
Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union representing
low-wage hospitality and health care workers in New Orleans. He also
served as the long-time Secretary-Treasurer of the New Orleans Central
Labor Council. Rathke left ACORN in 2008 to support grassroots citizen
and labor organizing overseas through his newly-formed organization,
Community Organizing International.

We hope you will join us for this very important public lecture by one
of the nation’s most successful, effective, and (according to Glenn
Beck and others) most controversial community organizers and
activists! Please encourage your neighbors, co-workers, and friends to
attend what, I am confident, will be an exciting evening ideas and
conversation.

With Warm regards,



Ken Reardon, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in City
and Regional Planning

The University of Memphis

901-678-2161