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/2020/04/CN04092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River There’s something happening to community organizing, and it’s not a good thing. The job is being expropriated and defanged of its critical content and its bottom-up push for peoples’ power by corporate and political interests. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon, but it’s getting …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A couple of random comments have gotten me thinking a bit about the post-coronavirus world. One thing that stuck with me was a young man’s take on hoarding in New York City that was a throwaway line in a New Yorker piece. In his …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04072020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I’m way out of my lane when I start chiming in on how the military should work, and I’ll admit it, but only to a degree. I’m pretty clear that “chain of command” is not something that you wrap around your ankle like a …