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".
Black Student Union members and supporters outside the UW Administration Building July 28, 2021 New Orleans I skim the Arts section of the New York Times. As I was taking it to recycling yesterday, something caught my eye. It was a picture of young Black men raising their fists in front of a …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The President says, open the schools. Actually, he doesn’t have any power over opening the schools, so it’s more bully-boy posturing and threatening backed up by Betsey DeVos prattling along the same lines, while neither of them are lifting a finger to help finance what …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock If the process of test scoring isn’t a national issue yet, it’s going to be. Fire fights have erupted in community after community at all levels, because there is no consensus on either the tests or what they measure. New York City is being hammered …