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/CN11032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans First, the disclaimers. When a story about an event and a political and activist organization fifty years earlier makes a full page in the New York Times, we must all realize that this is not real news, but heavily processed information through the perspective …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans On the sometimes lonely march to try to advance and rebuild low-and-moderate income communities, it’s always a welcome relief to stumble on fellow travelers moving on much the same pathway. At least that’s how I felt preparing to interview Chuck Marohn for Wade’s World, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Pedro Sula In almost any work on social movements and social change organizations, authors are usually crystal clear: protest is an exercise of the powerless. Contemporary politics may be turning this world of certainty upside down. In recent years we have already seen “walkouts” become popular …