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/2020/01/CN01182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam If Parchman Prison in the fertile Mississippi River delta of Sunflower County is in the news, it means there’s bad news, never good news. Parchman is the only men’s state prison in Mississippi. Parchman is part of the Leadbelly story. Parchman was the hellhole where civil …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNewark There seem to be no limits to the vengeful pettiness of President Trump and his administration. Nowhere is that clearer than looking at the deliberate obstacles placed in the way of Puerto Rico’s recovery – or lack of it – from Hurricane Maria in 2017 or …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I’m sorry, but whenever there’s a subhead in the Wall Street Journal in bold, italics heralding “Power and Respect for the Working Class,” it’s a signal that we have to pay special attention to what the professor might be saying. This one turned out to …