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".
Why are Montgomery Civil Rights Memorials Private? July 19, 2021 New Orleans and Montgomery Driving back from north Georgia to New Orleans, my son and I had left early enough that we decided to make another midday detour through downtown Montgomery to at least see the Maya Lin designed Civil Rights Memorial with inscriptions of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans If I had a thousand dollars for every time someone, well-meaning or evil-intentioned, said to me, that “I could agree with ACORN, but I can’t agree with your tactics,” then we would have enough money in the bank to organize for years. For …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans At the end of every year, there’s a section in the New York Times about the “lives they lived” that looks at people large and small that died during the past year. Unita Blackwell a civil rights warrior from Mississippi, born in 1933, died …