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".
New Orleans Luckily, a lot of us still know how powerful radio can be as a communication tool and not just an entertainment delivery system. Certainly, conservatives who dominate talk radio know this fully. Evangelists and religious broadcasters, sportscasters, and farm market reports still believe in radio, as well. Others are realizing that …
Marble Falls You know it’s going to be a good crowd when the seats start filling up fifteen minutes before the meeting. We had not called an all-hands radio hosts’ meeting since before the pandemic, so maybe the KABF DJs were ready to see each other and catch up. More likely, from the …
New Orleans After three straight days of meetings, first an exciting one-day long training workshop with frontline leaders and activists in the Gulf Coast facing climate change and its threats, and then two intense days of staff meetings, you could have wrung me out like an old dishrag. I was beat. Luckily, as …