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".
New Orleans There are no good ways to die, but emphysema is a tough way to go. I watched my grandfather die that way as a child. He was weak and housebound in his last years. The main medical palliative in the middle-to-late 1950s was to encourage him to get a color television. My …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew York City It’s the holiday season when old time movies used to give us hope that miracles might happen. Santa might climb down from the chimney, if you had a chimney anymore. There were urban legends of teenagers finding car keys under the tree, although …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/CN10202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The horrors visited on low-and-moderate income families are numerous and their damage inestimable and often devastating now and onward to future generations. Even knowing this, it is still shocking to find additional examples hidden right before our eyes. A case in point is estate recovery. …