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/2020/11/CN10312020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We’re at Halloween, there’s a blue moon, and it’s a super-scary time with the election only days and hours away. What me worry? Hell, yes! I’m still fretting and fuming over various voter registration campaigns having, until very, very recently, ceded the work in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was a special section in the New York Times recently where their reporters did a follow-up with workers from all around America that they had talked to during the pandemic to see how they were faring now. That was a super depressing read! …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Storms around Labor Day get my full attention. Betsy hit hard in the fall of 1965 right after school began and took more than a week to get everything back in gear. Katrina in 2005 hit at the end of August and decimated …