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/2019/11/CN11162019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There is no danger whatsoever that anyone will start calling American football the “beautiful game,” which is sometimes the expression used internationally for what the world sees as football, which we call soccer. Football is earning the moniker of the “deadly” game for its …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock On the Peoples’ Daily News that I do for the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM) and all of our stations, I scrounge the daily papers for factoids and news bits that might interest our listeners and give them a brief sense of the fine hands …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11132019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville Some months ago I was reading about the demise of a significant social service and advocacy organization. A former executive director, David Tobis, who had also written a book about the organization and was one of its founders was quoted saying, “Movements start, they rise, they …