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/CN11052019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Sure, I’ve read about the Green New Deal. I know it’s a liberal-left litmus test. I know US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has derided it as impractical and essentially irrelevant, while others are waving the banner. I’ve read the arguments that we need to transform …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The persistent political canard has been that, sure, you can register young people, but most of them are not going to vote. The Trump turmoil and the urgency of climate change is overturning whatever conventional wisdom that might have been attached to that notion …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsHouston Call me crazy, but I think this would be fun. I noticed a brief blurb in the “news” section of the recent Science magazine. It heralded the discovery by astronomer Scott Shepherd of twenty additional moons orbiting around the planet Saturn. I had not realized there …