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/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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A tip from a friend sent me to a seat on the back row of a lecture hall at the Tulane Law School to listen to a star-studded panel assembled on the topic of “Fighting the Polluter’s Paradise: Taking Back Louisiana’s Air.” ACORN’s affiliate, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN112012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Newsday, the big Long Island, New York newspaper, reported on a three-year investigation of real estate practices in this suburb that is well-known as one of the whitest suburbs in America. Using a classic tactic to determine such racial discrimination, they sent out 100 …