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/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 …
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 …