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/CN10202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s small world. Marva Burnett, the president of ACORN Canada and ACORN International, visited several cities in Nigeria last year with her church group. She met a young man named Edem Etido in Port Harcourt, a large city much farther southwest from Lagos, the …
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 …