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/2019/12/CN12012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There are not a huge number of issues where there is bipartisan agreement, but over the last five years the widespread reports of abuse in civil asset forfeiture have achieved that rarity. The original policy rationalization for seizing property was based on the recovery ill-gotten …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11272019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Not only have I believed there is a housing crisis, but I’ve said so repeatedly and at every opportunity I’ve been given. I’ve also argued that rents and evictions are rising at record levels. I haven’t been making any of this up. I’ve quoted …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed? If you can make it past the daily Trump wailing wall, there’s one report after another of protests. Not some piddling ten- or twenty-person thing, though there’s plenty of that as well, but I’m talking about mass protests, …