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/2020/06/CN06122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The coronavirus pandemic continues unabated as it rises and falls from state to state and country to country. Healthcare institutions have been bent, but largely not broken in the United States. Meanwhile experts are divided on whether by the end of the year we will …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River What do mass-based organizations and social movements do when their tactics of mass action, disruption, and street protests are impossible due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing? Do collective actions simply devolve into solitary moans on social media? No, never! Mass-based organizations assemble the base …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Ten percent of Americans have absolutely, flat-to-the-bone, no health insurance. Many others have Trump-plan insurance with high deductibles, covering nothing much at all, but maybe catastrophes up to certain lifetime payment levels. Many of these same people are exactly the people who have to work, …