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/CN01092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There’s a big split within the federal banking establishment about what to do about revisions to the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. This is not your run of the mill, chest thumping, and elbow pushing in Washington over turf and regulatory jurisdiction. It’s actually very …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The headline may have said that Iran sent twenty missiles at two Iraqi bases where US troops and materials were stationed, but the picture in my local paper was equally disturbing. It showed New Orleans police officers armed to the gills with machine guns, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01072020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We saw the tactic swallow the strategy in the Occupy movement. We just discussed the situation in Hong Kong over the last seven months where the tactics and adaptations have been brilliantly effective, but the strategy for victory is still unknown and perhaps tragically …