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/2020/08/CN08292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River A million years ago a random snip of an article or book or something, I honestly don’t remember, made what seemed to me a profound observation. The author or reporter said that one of the weaknesses of modern America at the time – 50 years …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River I’m fifteen feet above dirt looking out the window at the water that has risen up from the bayou a few miles from the Pearl River dividing Louisiana and Mississippi. It has filled the bioswale, anchored by cypress trees off of the road, and covered …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A little less than a decade ago, in mid-2011, ACORN International stirred up a bit of a hornets’ nest by opposing the international development consensus in a series of reports we issued that questioned the value of microfinance as a poverty reduction measure. Boiled …