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/CN08242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN partnered with Ken Reardon and his team from various universities that he mobilized for the recovery after Katrina to create the Peoples’ Plan for the Ninth Ward. His students and volunteers surveyed every property and assessed the level of damage and whether or …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN International has done several reports over the years stating our position clearly: microfinance is not a poverty reduction program. Doing so, we knew we were running way outside the herd of the prevailing donor-based and donor-funded consensus, but facts are facts. Debt doesn’t …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Jobs to Move America is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that had a fantastic idea that was as simple and straightforward as it was dynamic. If a public agency is going to offer a contract to purchase something like major public transportation equipment, they should …