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/CN11022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans On the sometimes lonely march to try to advance and rebuild low-and-moderate income communities, it’s always a welcome relief to stumble on fellow travelers moving on much the same pathway. At least that’s how I felt preparing to interview Chuck Marohn for Wade’s World, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We knew it was coming. When the American Voters Project combined with ACORN International and Labor Neighbor Research and Action Project to create the Voter Purge Project one of our first conversations was about adding Georgia to the list of states we needed to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The persistent political canard has been that, sure, you can register young people, but most of them are not going to vote. The Trump turmoil and the urgency of climate change is overturning whatever conventional wisdom that might have been attached to that notion …