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/CN02082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans How can I say this plainly? Electric cooperatives have become increasingly less cooperative, and, frankly, not even all that electric. What was a huge breakthrough in taking electricity the last mile into rural areas through cooperative efforts in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s efforts …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02072020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock Driving through Mississippi back and forth on my regular route from New Orleans to Greenville to Little Rock and then back again, when I hit the long rural stretches since we belong to the noncommercial radio religion, I listen often to Mississippi Public “Think” Radio. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The best thing to come out of the Iowa caucus disaster is the delay, which continues even now, because it prevents preemptive determination of a winner until the full totals are known, rather than allowing the headlines to anoint someone who seems to have …