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/2020/07/CN07132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Statues and memorials of various stripes are getting a good hard look after decades where they received a pass from the public and politicians no matter how obnoxious their content and symbolism. Confederate memorials are in every nook and cranny in the South, and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Paying attention to President Trump’s tweets is a fool’s errand, best delegated to journalists paid for the practice. These are “thought bombs” sometimes disguised as policy or personnel decisions. They are “Mission Impossible” instructions that dissolve or explode in many cases almost as soon as …