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/CN02212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We don’t have a major league baseball team in New Orleans. Our closest team is a bit more than five hours away in Houston. In the vast majority of the last several decades, we would drive over with the kids so that they could …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an interesting and important way. In a recent article about some of the unintended consequences of geographic inequality being concentrated in certain cities, he pointed out several things. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s one thing to feel powerless in the face of government like the Chinese ophthalmologist who died of the coronavirus after being reprimanded for warning colleagues in his hospital. Poignantly, he said, “every country needs more than one voice.” This is why we build …