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/CN07042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In organizing unions, captive audience meetings are the scourge of organizing drives. The employers have the right to make the meetings mandatory in order to deliver their anti-union screeds, but union representatives are unable to attend. Organizers spend hours preparing committee members and union activists …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock There’s nothing new about states, particularly blood-red states, trying to suppress the vote. The Republican strategy continues to be not to change one iota in their far right, white grievance, servant to the rich appeal, but to bear down until their last voters are gone. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock The old saying that “arrogance comes before the fall,” doesn’t set the clock on when it happens, just the inevitability. Facebook, the social media giant and communication hub for the world, seems finally on the verge of reading the time correctly, after ignoring the issues …