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/CN11132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta It took five hours and half a tank of gas for me and two organizers for the ACORN Tenants Union in Atlanta to visit more than a dozen apartment complexes in five different counties around metro Atlanta and the perimeter. The day had started in misty …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta Attorney General Barr, Senator Lindsay Graham and other Republican hardline Trump apologists made quite a bit of a story told by a postal worker in Pennsylvania that he had overheard co-workers discussing ways to backdate ballots received late, so that they would be counted in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsChicago Understand me clearly. I was lucky. I had a dawn run from Columbus to Chicago and then onto Atlanta in the weirdness of travel during the pandemic. It made sense to stay as close to the airport as possible, and I ended up at a Hampton …