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/CN12012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There are not a huge number of issues where there is bipartisan agreement, but over the last five years the widespread reports of abuse in civil asset forfeiture have achieved that rarity. The original policy rationalization for seizing property was based on the recovery ill-gotten …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans All of the controversy on questions in the 2020 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been about whether a question would be allowed about citizenship. The federal courts pretty much slammed the door on that question when one judge after …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN12292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Here’s an interesting voter registration story, but it’s not in the United States, but the United Kingdom. I had been hearing about this phenomenon for weeks whenever I spoke with our organizers in England. ACORN was working on a specialized program before the coming …