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/2019/08/CN08282019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville New York City added a right to legal counsel for tenants facing eviction. It made a difference with the city’s eviction rate falling from almost 29000 in 2013 to only a bit over 18000 in last year. Nationally, it is likely that more than 2.5 million …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08272019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Normally, when I note that I’m sick of reading about the National Rifle Association, known to all as the NRA, that means that there’s been a mass shooting somewhere in the United States, and they have planted themselves in the road to block any …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having said for decades that in any group it is always possible, through observation and listening, to identify the organizers, the leaders, and the underlying structure, no matter how informal and supposedly anti-hierarchical and structureless the formation, I was thunderstruck to see the mention …