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/2019/11/CN12292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Here’s an interesting voter registration story, but it’s not in the United States, but the United Kingdom. I had been hearing about this phenomenon for weeks whenever I spoke with our organizers in England. ACORN was working on a specialized program before the coming …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A tip from a friend sent me to a seat on the back row of a lecture hall at the Tulane Law School to listen to a star-studded panel assembled on the topic of “Fighting the Polluter’s Paradise: Taking Back Louisiana’s Air.” ACORN’s affiliate, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We knew it was coming. When the American Voters Project combined with ACORN International and Labor Neighbor Research and Action Project to create the Voter Purge Project one of our first conversations was about adding Georgia to the list of states we needed to …