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/CN10032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDoha One corollary of constant long-distance road work is the magazine subscriptions pile up. I usually take an inch-high stack with me, and on an endless flight to Katmandu that includes an unscheduled seven-hour delay in Doha, Qatar, mining the mags can produce some interesting discoveries. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans For months ACORN’s affiliate in France, the Alliance Citoyenne, has been campaigning first in Grenoble and then in Lyon and other cities around the ban on the Muslim women from public spaces if they were wearing a hijab or other face, head or body-covering …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN10012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The Department of Labor has formalized a new rule on overtime that will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Any salaried workers making less than $35,308 annually, will be automatically eligible for overtime. The standard in effect for the last fifteen years, since …