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/CN01312020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock In Dublin, Ireland, ACORN’s affiliate, CATU-Ireland, shares offices in a progressive, community co-working space with a bunch of different organizations and artists in a building near the Mountjoy neighborhood called Jigsaw. The name captures the sense of bringing a number of different groups – pieces …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDublin What a treat! Intermixed with making the organizing plan for the year with some of the CATU officers, I got to be backup with a couple of the committee on the doors in the Mountjoy-Dorset neighborhood where the first group is being built. The first …
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 …