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/2019/10/CN10312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The persistent political canard has been that, sure, you can register young people, but most of them are not going to vote. The Trump turmoil and the urgency of climate change is overturning whatever conventional wisdom that might have been attached to that notion …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsOxford Having breakfast at the University of Memphis before leaving for Oxford, Mississippi, home of the University of Mississippi, we were in a good mood after the Hooks Institute event the previous evening. We laughed at the number of people in the audience that evening who …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsMemphis The Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change was established in 1996 by the University of Memphis and the late Benjamin Hooks, former president of the NAACP, originally from the city. The Hooks Institute has a number of projects from documentaries to advancing the interests of …