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/2019/08/cn08302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a great organization and with almost two-million members, the largest in the United States. Its membership is diverse and anything but an entitled aristocracy of labor for the most part with somewhere between a third to forty percent …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock If the process of test scoring isn’t a national issue yet, it’s going to be. Fire fights have erupted in community after community at all levels, because there is no consensus on either the tests or what they measure. New York City is being hammered …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08282019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville New York City added a right to legal counsel for tenants facing eviction. It made a difference with the city’s eviction rate falling from almost 29000 in 2013 to only a bit over 18000 in last year. Nationally, it is likely that more than 2.5 million …