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/2019/10/CN10292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsMemphis The Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change was established in 1996 by the University of Memphis and the late Benjamin Hooks, former president of the NAACP, originally from the city. The Hooks Institute has a number of projects from documentaries to advancing the interests of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The answer to the perpetually plaguing question of why we have such intractable poverty in the United States, arguably the richest country in the world, is always perplexing. Every comparison of the US with other economically developed countries finds us at or near the …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/CN10202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The horrors visited on low-and-moderate income families are numerous and their damage inestimable and often devastating now and onward to future generations. Even knowing this, it is still shocking to find additional examples hidden right before our eyes. A case in point is estate recovery. …