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/2019/12/CN12302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCulebra This is a warning on the eve of a new year: I’m obsessed with stopping voter suppression as we countdown the months and days to the election in November. Besides my general obsession, I’m especially focused on the efforts “behind closed doors,” so to speak in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFort Lauderdale The voters came out from under the rocks and jumped over the hedgerows to vote for the Conservatives behind weird and wacky Boris Johnson in the recent snap election in Britain. Labour took a drubbing, even in the northern districts that had been their equivalent …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12192019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock I don’t like to think about domestic abuse. It makes me sad. It makes me mad. I can watch the blood-and-gore on police procedurals on TV or Netflix or whatever, and pretend it’s make believe, but harming women and children is a head turner and …