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/2020/06/CN06272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta Every six months or so in recent years we have been pulling together community, labor, and political organizers, mostly in Europe and the United Kingdom, to share perspectives and organizing experiences. Until the pandemic, we had met several times in Amsterdam. Now we convened on Zoom …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Let me be honest. We can hardly keep our primary Facebook account and website up to date. We gave up on Twitter long ago and have sworn it off until Trump is gone. Because there are multiple organizations in our family of operations from …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s hard to categorize the experiences of four in a row rat-a-tat Zoom calls commemorating ACORN’s 50th anniversary. The technology isn’t seamless, at least for me, but even while it is strange and less satisfactory than in person, it is also weirdly intimate, because …