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/2019/09/CN09282019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLake Buckhorn, Ontario In the annual HO/LO meeting of ACORN Canada several hours north of Toronto in the urban-centric area called “cottage country” near the defining geological formation known as the Canadian Shield, the head organizers and lead organizers throughout the Canadian organization were taking the measure …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09272019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLake Buckhorn, Ontario For some reason reading about the latest outrages of Trump and the wildness in the White House and Washington, the 1962 Gene Pitney song, “A Town without Pity,” has been rolling around in my head with a slight variation. Where the famous line was, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew York City We touched down at bedraggled, wannabe better, LaGuardia Airport in New York City around ten in the morning on a beautiful clear early fall day. Banking in to the landing the wings warbled back and forth a bit, meaning nothing, but something I …