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/CN07142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Remember not so long ago when one self-proclaimed wizard after another, usually in power in some corporation, foundation, or governmental post, declared that “protest is passé.” Those of us so atavistic and anachronistic were simply out of step with modern times, the power of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The big reveal on protests now is an admission of what many have known or suspected for years: domestic surveillance is real and it’s all around us. According to press reports, the Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes and drones over 15 cities …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The New York Times print edition featured a two-page spread overlaying the map of the United States in a special Black Lives Matter section. Across the map were the names of the 2000 cities and towns where there had been protests in a recent …