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".
Pearl River The second leg of the stool was building a community-based organization in order to block Wal-Mart from building new supercenters. To engage that fight, we build WARN, Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now, as a broad coalition of unions, community and civil rights organizations (including ACORN chapters obviously), environmental groups, and civic associations in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I’ve been a fan of Moxie Marlinspike since I first became acquainted with his encryption work years ago. Ok, I admit, I also liked his name and his general thumb to the nose to the tech world, the military-industrial complex (remember them), and of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s small world. Marva Burnett, the president of ACORN Canada and ACORN International, visited several cities in Nigeria last year with her church group. She met a young man named Edem Etido in Port Harcourt, a large city much farther southwest from Lagos, the …