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/2020/10/CN10012020realone.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta What a fiasco! This was no debate. This was a barnyard brawl. Once it was over the question was not whether Joe Biden had won, but how much Donald Trump had lost. Maybe Trump’s base liked his bullyboy show, but it hardly matters at one …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There’s something strange and different happening in the world of protests. The average bystander is unlikely to have noticed this, but as a practitioner in this trade, I couldn’t avoid recognizing a subtle, but surprising global trend: marathon protests. Once upon a time, it …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We have to take progress where we can get it in these dark days at perhaps the tail end of the Trump administration. There are scores of last-minute aberrations from muscling an appointment to the Supreme Court to further eroding labor law protections that are …