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/2020/02/CN02182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Foundations created by corporations and the superrich are multi-headed monster of tax havens and public relations that combine to whitewash a story for the people down below that makes us swallow rather than spit. The latest examples have Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans With the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency leading the way to gut the Community Reinvestment Act along with some other federal regulators, the last thing we should be doing is having to remind everyone, including the government and its legions of politicians, about …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, so what better time to talk about the still unresolved, raw issues around race that continue more than 150 years after his death. Evidence abounds that you can’t run from issues around race, as we examine increased scrutiny of Democratic …