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/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 …
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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans What a great birthday present – happy birthday to me! Kris Kobach was defeated in the Republican primary in Kansas in his latest bid for another elected job, this time vying for an open seat in the U.S. Senate. That wasn’t the only great …