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/2019/08/CN08262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having said for decades that in any group it is always possible, through observation and listening, to identify the organizers, the leaders, and the underlying structure, no matter how informal and supposedly anti-hierarchical and structureless the formation, I was thunderstruck to see the mention …
Milan There’s an old adage in organizing, that it’s not as much what happens in the meeting that counts, it’s what happens after the meeting that matters. Said another way, it’s all in the mop-up and the follow-up. If there were problems in the meeting, it’s how those problems can be solved or sanded …
St. Etienne As the organizers shook of the aftermath of fellowship-and-solidarity time that had gone on until the wee hours and included robust singing with new verses to all ACORN songs, they hunkered into the discussions of how ACORN was addressing both climate change and politics. There were two approaches that organizers argued on raising …