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/CN01272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDublin A change in plans pushed Tunisia off of my plane ticket and found me jumping instead from Manchester, England, to Dublin, Ireland, to meet with the officers of ACORN’s newest affiliate, CATU-Ireland or Communities and Tenants’ Union of Ireland. Nick Ballard, head organizer of ACORN-United Kingdom …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester Leeds had been my last stop with the team as we barnstormed our offices in England. Leeds was a new chapter that had self-organized with support from the other offices to over one-hundred members, and visiting with them in and around the showing of “The Organizer” …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLeeds As a 20-year old organizer directing the staff of the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization from Boston my few forays into Washington, D.C. to the national office on 14th Street NW were wide-eyed adventures to a city I had only visited once as a foot solider …