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/2019/11/CN11302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans All of the controversy on questions in the 2020 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been about whether a question would be allowed about citizenship. The federal courts pretty much slammed the door on that question when one judge after …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN12292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Here’s an interesting voter registration story, but it’s not in the United States, but the United Kingdom. I had been hearing about this phenomenon for weeks whenever I spoke with our organizers in England. ACORN was working on a specialized program before the coming …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The rental market in the USA is the wild west. Not the west where the “deer and the buffalo roam” and “the skies are never cloudy.” That’s long gone. The rental mark in America is now the wild west of HBO’s “Deadwood” and the …