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/CN12262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPonce, Puerto Rico At the end of every year we are inundated with the best of this and the top ten of that in music, movies, books, sports, tech, politics, and, well, I guess, almost everywhere. Rarely is there a list of the worst events of the …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10042019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKatmandu Bells were jingling at 5 AM. My window opened to a street that abutted a pond where a Hindu prayer space sat in the middle and on the other end were Buddhist stupas. Were the bells a kind of call to prayer or a melodious bicycle …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans For months ACORN’s affiliate in France, the Alliance Citoyenne, has been campaigning first in Grenoble and then in Lyon and other cities around the ban on the Muslim women from public spaces if they were wearing a hijab or other face, head or body-covering …