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/2019/12/CN12262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPonce, Puerto Rico At the end of every year we are inundated with the best of this and the top ten of that in music, movies, books, sports, tech, politics, and, well, I guess, almost everywhere. Rarely is there a list of the worst events of the …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFort Lauderdale The voters came out from under the rocks and jumped over the hedgerows to vote for the Conservatives behind weird and wacky Boris Johnson in the recent snap election in Britain. Labour took a drubbing, even in the northern districts that had been their equivalent …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Dine’ Butler and I had just finished our presentation about the impact of predatory land installment contracts and hedge funds in the Memphis real estate market at the Hooks Institute event at the University of Memphis recently. As the crowd thinned out, a woman came …