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/2019/11/CN11222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A tip from a friend sent me to a seat on the back row of a lecture hall at the Tulane Law School to listen to a star-studded panel assembled on the topic of “Fighting the Polluter’s Paradise: Taking Back Louisiana’s Air.” ACORN’s affiliate, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Remember back in the old days, which might have only been a few years ago, but certainly seems so twentieth century now, when it seemed OK that Google was the go-to search engine for most everyone, the mail service for billions, map reader for …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN112012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Newsday, the big Long Island, New York newspaper, reported on a three-year investigation of real estate practices in this suburb that is well-known as one of the whitest suburbs in America. Using a classic tactic to determine such racial discrimination, they sent out 100 …