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/CN01052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans At the end of every year, there’s a section in the New York Times about the “lives they lived” that looks at people large and small that died during the past year. Unita Blackwell a civil rights warrior from Mississippi, born in 1933, died …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans For their Scorpio birthdays, mi companera and mi hija both got robots. They aren’t really robots in the “Star Wars” sense. The name of this thing though is Shark-Ion Robot, although the generic name I gather is “roomba,” and Shark is just what this one …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Juan Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a little over two years ago on September 17, 2017, with more force as a Cat-5 storm than any in the recorded history of the island. In San Juan, the damage seemed slight and hardly noticeable. Once on the highways …