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/2020/07/CN07242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Talking to Ernie Dumas, Little Rock’s premier senior journalist, author, and raconteur in the outside patio of his place after a late spring rain and at proper social distance, he mentioned a call from Jane Mayer, the New Yorker, looking for information on a …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In organizing unions, captive audience meetings are the scourge of organizing drives. The employers have the right to make the meetings mandatory in order to deliver their anti-union screeds, but union representatives are unable to attend. Organizers spend hours preparing committee members and union activists …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Hey, bosses of healthcare workers, listen up! Yo, consumers and families of healthcare services, pay attention to this, like your life is at stake, since for more than half of you over 65, it is, because you will end up in long-term care. Policy …