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/2020/03/CN03122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In the “time of the virus,” I talked to Jackie Dartz, a member of the Local 100 United Labor Unions executive board and longtime steward at LARC, the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens, about direct care workers that were at the frontlines about their …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As the virus and its impact spreads, it is creating a new world of unexpected consequences and reckonings for outdated assumptions. Here’s one that might be uncomfortable news for the White House: we do live in one world, and walls will not protect us. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The financial meltdown in the real estate market of 2007, marked by foreclosures triggered by speculation and broker scams and wiping out the citizen wealth of millions of families, continues to carry a legacy of community and family disasters. Once again Wall Street and …