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/2019/10/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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09162019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis One of the treats of this Organizers’ Forum is getting to meet some of the organizers and members of El Comita, which is essentially ACORN Tunisia, the affiliate of ACORN International in this country. There are now several hundred members in five groups that have …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cn09142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis There are some difficult paradoxes involved in understanding the situation for labor unions, and for that matter, workers, in Tunisia. It is fair to say that the large labor federation UGTT is the only union anywhere in the world to get a slice of a Nobel …