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/CN10162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a moment of youthful recklessness more than fifty years ago, I allowed myself to get into one of those dangerous political conversations with the father of a woman I was seeing. He was a good, decent guy and Republican to the core, even …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The Monday Night Football expression that “it’s not over until the fat lady sings,” has thankfully been retired given the lack of appreciation for opera in our current culture and the increasing sensitivity towards different body types, thanks goodness. Nonetheless, despite all of the theories, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Breaking away from a meeting with our new tenant organizers at a table in front of Publix grocery store in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, I had to find a place quiet enough to talk to Rosemarie Day about her take on expanding universal …