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/2020/09/CN09302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There’s something strange and different happening in the world of protests. The average bystander is unlikely to have noticed this, but as a practitioner in this trade, I couldn’t avoid recognizing a subtle, but surprising global trend: marathon protests. Once upon a time, it …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We have to take progress where we can get it in these dark days at perhaps the tail end of the Trump administration. There are scores of last-minute aberrations from muscling an appointment to the Supreme Court to further eroding labor law protections that are …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I had an elementary school teacher whose constant rejoinder was that “the only thing certain in life was death and taxes.” At a tender age, neither absolute means much. What are taxes? When is death? As we age, we find out way too much …