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/2020/02/CN02242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was a time when families followed a careful rule. When gathering with the blood, avoid talking about religion or politics. Only part of that rule still holds, as America becomes more and more secular, despite the hardcore pockets of evangelicals around the country. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKansas City Flying in and out of the Kansas City International airport is like a snapshot back in another time, more specifically a time when automobiles and the convenience of local customers dominated planning and performance. Airports, and some train stations like the new ones in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKansas City I can still remember my third grade teacher walking us through the duck-and-cover exercise and announcing as we prepared to march to the corner single file that she would be standing on the asphalt covered playground where she intended to mark an X, because …