The Disappearing Organizing Art:  Tagging

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     Those were the days!  As part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebration of ACORN this year, different veterans have joined me on Wade’s World to share their memories and reminisce about their work when they rode for the ACORN brand.  We started out with Sue …

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Change is Messy

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock       One takeaway from the memorials to civil rights leader and organizer, Congressman John Lewis, has been the repeated invocation of the violence that was the handmaiden of the struggle.  Martin Luther King, Jr. preached nonviolence to anyone who would listen, and, tactically, that became the …

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Counting Matters

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      In yet another concern, with the US election looming ever closer, is a new report that Commerce Department officials and others around the White House are trying to speed up the already troubled census count in order to have it finish early.  This is …

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