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/2020/10/CN10132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans My ears perked up as I was listening to a radio broadcaster in Austin relate a story about a novel and dangerous police crowd control tactic used to break up a demonstration. In his telling, a mobile squad of police bicycle cops swooped down …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There’s something strange and different happening in the world of protests. The average bystander is unlikely to have noticed this, but as a practitioner in this trade, I couldn’t avoid recognizing a subtle, but surprising global trend: marathon protests. Once upon a time, it …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I actually know a lot about the national political conventions, both Republican and Democratic. ACORN was well represented every four years from the 1978 Memphis midterm under President Carter to 1980 in New York and Detroit, Dallas with the Republicans and Ronald Reagan in …