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/2020/08/CN08302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In a week when double-barreled hurricanes, Marcos and Laura, threatened the Louisiana coast, the fifteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are easy to forget. Remembrances are small and solemn, as people still crouch …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River A million years ago a random snip of an article or book or something, I honestly don’t remember, made what seemed to me a profound observation. The author or reporter said that one of the weaknesses of modern America at the time – 50 years …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River You no longer need to read the sports pages to see what’s happening with athletes, because their actions are now turning up on the front page. The NBA playoffs may be happening in a bubble in Orlando, Florida, but these professional basketball players are not …