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/2020/09/CN09112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We can answer the question of whether or not democracy can work for the poor, or we can ask why democracies are failing the poor? Either way, the answer is uncomfortable for many who would think the question is easy, but the question is …
New Orleans It is impossible to deny that there is a huge, concerted effort to suppress voters in the ostensibly democratic process of elections in the United States. Voter identification laws have proliferated more widely than fetal heartbeat bills. The blatantly racist and partisan effort to embed a citizenship question into the 2020 Census, now …
New Orleans The Freedom House in its annual ranking of democratic practice pushed the United States down the list again this year. Pundits argue that this is a direct result of life under the autocratic whims of President Trump. Sadly, that would be a simpler problem to solve with a fixed date in 2020 to …