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/CN12302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCulebra This is a warning on the eve of a new year: I’m obsessed with stopping voter suppression as we countdown the months and days to the election in November. Besides my general obsession, I’m especially focused on the efforts “behind closed doors,” so to speak in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A Georgia judge allowed a 300,000 voter purge to happen hours ago in that state. A lawsuit filed by Fair Vote Action seeking to prevent the purge will happen later this week on the constitutional argument that voters should be maintained on the rolls. …
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 …