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/2020/03/CN03102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The financial meltdown in the real estate market of 2007, marked by foreclosures triggered by speculation and broker scams and wiping out the citizen wealth of millions of families, continues to carry a legacy of community and family disasters. Once again Wall Street and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Visiting with old friends from Montana and Texas the other night, out of the blue one of my buddies asked me what I thought about the “carbon bank?” I’m not a big fan of corporations not actually reducing their carbon and polluting footprint, but …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Over the last several years, ACORN International and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center have been collecting and analyzing the IRS 990 forms filed by tax exempt, nonprofit hospitals in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. This is a project driven by our “volunteer army,” …