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/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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In the modern economy, warehouse, distribution, and logistical work has become critical for both big box stores, e-commerce, and transportation systems moving goods between all of these nodes and customers. Some 1.2 million workers are directly employed in this sector now according to the …