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/2019/09/CN09212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCatania It was pouring down rain, as Laura Saija, professor of community planning at the University of Catania, and her colleagues met me to go to “The Organizer” showing for activists in Catania. They had been drenched in a downpour with water up past their ankles. A …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCatania Sicily is a puzzle to me. I keep coming back, because we always seem right on the verge of breaking through to be able to start ACORN organizing here, but can’t seem to get all the way through the door. Usually the problem is money, and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09192019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCatania I had heard about iWatch before arriving in Tunis from one of our leaders in Grenoble, who has roots in Tunisia, and said we had to meet with them. Their website seemed to identify them as an anti-corruption nonprofit. Once in Tunis it seemed to the …