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/2019/10/CN10232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A question posed recently by a one of my favorite op-ed columnists, Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times, was essentially, “where have all of the protestors gone?” It wasn’t exactly her question, but close enough. She marveled at the number of mass actions …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Various polls indicate that the American people are increasingly open to impeachment proceedings on President Trump, but his hardcore Republican base continues to hold firm, seemingly against all odds. Increasingly, I have to wonder giving the Teflon nature of his support, whether his Achilles …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The answer to the perpetually plaguing question of why we have such intractable poverty in the United States, arguably the richest country in the world, is always perplexing. Every comparison of the US with other economically developed countries finds us at or near the …