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".
New Orleans Pundits and politicos are already talking about the 2022 US midterm elections with anxiety and bated breath, but the election news is meh and madness in other countries right now. The annual ACORN Canada staff meeting and training north of Toronto was held in person recently. The team was following the …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River Helping with the ACORN Canada board zoom call was inspirational as always, but an eyeopener as well. The good news included a win in the British Columbia after an extensive ACORN “internet for all” campaign with the telecommunications company Telus who finally agreed to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We can count the days until we pray that’s it is over, but until then the drumbeat of woe is bound to continue. The gutted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proved that it really might need a name change as it announced the shelving of …