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/2020/04/CN04092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River There’s something happening to community organizing, and it’s not a good thing. The job is being expropriated and defanged of its critical content and its bottom-up push for peoples’ power by corporate and political interests. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon, but it’s getting …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A couple of random comments have gotten me thinking a bit about the post-coronavirus world. One thing that stuck with me was a young man’s take on hoarding in New York City that was a throwaway line in a New Yorker piece. In his …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Central America doesn’t get the press on the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s as real there as it is in other countries, except perhaps more dangerous since these countries lack the same level of infrastructure and capacity. Guatemala managed to break into the news cycle …