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/2020/01/CN01192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam A housing conference took place in a workers’ center built in the heart of a neighborhood in the 1930s in the midst of the worldwide depression that the conveners thought underscored the possibilities even in the midst of the current European affordable housing crisis. Guest presentations …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam In the second meeting of what we are now calling the “The Organizing Forum” or TOF, which I choose to pronounce as TOUGH, more than forty organizers from the Netherlands, France, Brussels, the United Kingdom, and the United States came together in Amsterdam to share experiences …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Juan Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a little over two years ago on September 17, 2017, with more force as a Cat-5 storm than any in the recorded history of the island. In San Juan, the damage seemed slight and hardly noticeable. Once on the highways …