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/2020/05/CN05232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The other day I read a belated obituary on Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Nick Kotz. He had passed away at 87 on his cattle farm in Virginia of a freak accident involving a vehicle. The obit celebrated his work, while an investigative reporter based in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Remember way back in another lifetime, pre-pandemic, before the coronavirus global killer wave? It seems years ago, but it was only last summer that ACORN’s French affiliate, Alliance Citoyenne, gained huge attention throughout France and all of Europe and the Francophone world, when our members …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The sports pages are full of discussion about whether or not baseball players will be putting the wood on the ball soon in huge, empty parks, or whether basketball players will be bouncing the rubber on the hardwood courts to resume their season. For organizers, …