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/2020/08/CN08192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A little less than a decade ago, in mid-2011, ACORN International stirred up a bit of a hornets’ nest by opposing the international development consensus in a series of reports we issued that questioned the value of microfinance as a poverty reduction measure. Boiled …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. wrote a watershed volume several years ago, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. The title goes to the heart of his well-documented, thoroughly researched …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans President Trump wrong-footed me for a minute. Trump said he was going to take a good look at whether to pardon Edward J. Snowden, the supersized intelligence leaker and former National Security contractor. Trump claimed there was a division of opinion with some saying …