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".
Edinburgh Edinburgh Escaping most of the headlines of the Glasgow COP26 gathering of the tribes in a parade demanding more immediate climate change was much of any report on the police escapades. The on-line edition of the New York Times only had these few words hanging in the story: : In Glasgow there was …
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 …