Obama administration helps ACORN defend socialism – in India!

ACORN has long set its sights on Wal-Mart, which like ACORN, was founded in Arkansas. ACORN created an affiliate, W*A*R*N (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now), specifically to organize unions in Wal-Mart stores.

ACORN International is headed by ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Like a modern-day Karl Marx in exile, Rathke is doing his best to spread the wealth all around the globe, spreading social justice and shakedown techniques to the far corners of the globe. He uses the ACORN brand, which has been tarnished in the U.S. after a series of scandals, in his organizing efforts abroad.

Although both ACORN and ACORN International say ties between the two organizations have been severed, sources close to ACORN believe Rathke works behind-the-scenes with ACORN.

Rathke isn’t supposed to have any ties to ACORN. When ACORN’s national board fired him as chief organizer in June 2008, he was ordered to sever any connections he had to the group.

Yet, Rathke does not appear to have stepped down as president and director of Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM), an ACORN affiliate that produces news segments for eight alternative radio stations.

Rathke remains publisher of ACORN’s periodical, Social Policy magazine. The magazine is published by Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center, an ACORN affiliate.

Rathke is also chief organizer of United Labor Unions Local 100 in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, a position he has held since 1979. Long a member group of the ACORN network, the union local was part of Service Employees International Union until last fall when it was disaffiliated from SEIU.

Rathke was booted out of ACORN after he orchestrated an eight-year cover-up of a nearly $1 million embezzlement from the group that his brother Dale Rathke perpetrated around 2000 while a senior ACORN official.