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/2020/04/CN04052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River What do mass-based organizations and social movements do when their tactics of mass action, disruption, and street protests are impossible due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing? Do collective actions simply devolve into solitary moans on social media? No, never! Mass-based organizations assemble the base …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River It’s not every day when the United States and any of the world that bothers to look gets such a stark lesson in leadership than what we have seen recently, both in what it is and what it is not. President Trump in a rambling …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River There’s no good time to be poor in America. Not surprisingly, a pandemic bringing rampant disease and deaths in droves is a spectacularly bad time to be poor. Some are even noticing the poor now, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that a whole lot …