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/2019/12/CN12242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Dine’ Butler and I had just finished our presentation about the impact of predatory land installment contracts and hedge funds in the Memphis real estate market at the Hooks Institute event at the University of Memphis recently. As the crowd thinned out, a woman came …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It turns out that there’s a reason that Wayne LaPierre, the embattled chief of the National Rifle Association, doesn’t give many interviews to the press. It because he comes off as an oblivious, self-centered, dissembling whiny baby. A reporter for the New York Times …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12212019endofyear.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Since 1975, I’ve been on the road, one way or another, pedal to the metal or wheels up, anywhere between one-third and more than a half of the year. I always make a mental note of the final trips as hallmarks of making it …