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/2020/03/CN03262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The draft was a central issue in the opposition to the Vietnam War. It touched all young men from eighteen to twenty-six, and the families that loved them. It was a terribly unifying horror that was shared throughout the country, forcing life changing, and often …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKansas City I can still remember my third grade teacher walking us through the duck-and-cover exercise and announcing as we prepared to march to the corner single file that she would be standing on the asphalt covered playground where she intended to mark an X, because …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Maybe we have gotten lucky and dodged widening the war in the Middle East after what seems like an impulse killing of one of Iran’s top generals and a key spymaster. The full story is still unknown. What were the threats that were so …