WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an interesting and important way. In a recent article about some of the unintended consequences of geographic inequality being concentrated in certain cities, he pointed out several things. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans One thing that intrigued me in both England and Ireland over the last two weeks was the amount of construction in every city I visited. These were not little small-time projects, but giant cranes building skyscrapers in most of the cities. Manchester was out of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDublin A change in plans pushed Tunisia off of my plane ticket and found me jumping instead from Manchester, England, to Dublin, Ireland, to meet with the officers of ACORN’s newest affiliate, CATU-Ireland or Communities and Tenants’ Union of Ireland. Nick Ballard, head organizer of ACORN-United Kingdom …