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/2020/09/CN09202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River We’ve talked about Bjorn Skogquist before, but this time we wanted to catch up with him and the Ban Tear Gas Campaign in more detail on Wade’s World. Bjorn was a former mayor of a small suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, who found himself forced into …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I didn’t want to be right on this, but from any reading of the Center for Disease Control’s federal eviction ban, it was clear that it was going to be a hot mess when it came to implementation. At one level, the order was …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We’re in the countdown to the November 3rd election, so while the candidates’ campaign and the voters try to sort out the choices, as the saying goes, “Here comes the judge!” We should say judges. In Texas, a federal appeals court ruled that the state …