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/2020/05/CN05242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Roughly 39 million Americans have applied for unemployment, not even counting gig and self-employed workers, workers who have abandoned job search, or couldn’t access the benefits, which means real unemployment is over 50 million. Statistical unemployment will be 17 or 18% but clearly, we’re at …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The other day I read a belated obituary on Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Nick Kotz. He had passed away at 87 on his cattle farm in Virginia of a freak accident involving a vehicle. The obit celebrated his work, while an investigative reporter based in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Remember way back in another lifetime, pre-pandemic, before the coronavirus global killer wave? It seems years ago, but it was only last summer that ACORN’s French affiliate, Alliance Citoyenne, gained huge attention throughout France and all of Europe and the Francophone world, when our members …