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/2019/08/CN08232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN International has done several reports over the years stating our position clearly: microfinance is not a poverty reduction program. Doing so, we knew we were running way outside the herd of the prevailing donor-based and donor-funded consensus, but facts are facts. Debt doesn’t …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGulf Shores The Yellow Vests or Gilets Jaunes protest in France began in the middle of November of 2018. In July in rural France in the Rhone/Alps region when ACORN International organizers met at an old farm house fifteen kilometers from St. Etienne, less than ten minutes …
St. Etienne Most people convened in Lyon, the second largest metropolitan area in France, either flying into its airport or rolling into the train station from all points. Some shuttled from the Lyon station to the Bas station near St. Etienne and waited for a pickup from the cars driving in from Grenoble, Lyon, Frankfurt, …