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/2019/10/CN10082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Ginger Baker, the great rock and whatever drummer, passed away at eighty as I flew back across time from Katmandu to New Orleans. There was a full-page obituary for Baker in the New York Times, which measures the sound and fury of his playing …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Over the last eight years with Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, we’ve learned more about tipping than we ever really wanted to know. The bottom line is usually, locals and regulars, yes, tourists and one-timers, way less so. I read a recent article in the New …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We joked the entire weekend while I was in Canada in one of these Fairway Holiday Park Isle Of Wight: lodges. Not because we didn’t feel for the tens of thousands of passengers and disappointed British vacationers, and certainly not because we didn’t envy …