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/CN02102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We were watching a show on Amazon Prime called Distrito Salvaje or Wild District the other day that originates in Columbia. The through line on the series is a former super guerilla-killa with FARC had come back to Bogota as part of the peace …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans How can I say this plainly? Electric cooperatives have become increasingly less cooperative, and, frankly, not even all that electric. What was a huge breakthrough in taking electricity the last mile into rural areas through cooperative efforts in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s efforts …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The best thing to come out of the Iowa caucus disaster is the delay, which continues even now, because it prevents preemptive determination of a winner until the full totals are known, rather than allowing the headlines to anoint someone who seems to have …