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/CN10102019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN India’s Dharavi Project has long focused on recycling in the Mumbai mega-slum where we work. Organizing young waste pickers has led us to create a cooperative of sorts employing scores of recyclers. ACORN has struck deals with many schools, including the French and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The latest gambit by the Trump White House is to simply refuse to cooperate with any investigation by the House committees tasked with the job. The lawyers for Trump make the specious claim that no investigation is legitimate without an actual vote on impeachment, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Ginger Baker, the great rock and whatever drummer, passed away at eighty as I flew back across time from Katmandu to New Orleans. There was a full-page obituary for Baker in the New York Times, which measures the sound and fury of his playing …