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/2020/01/CN01262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester Leeds had been my last stop with the team as we barnstormed our offices in England. Leeds was a new chapter that had self-organized with support from the other offices to over one-hundred members, and visiting with them in and around the showing of “The Organizer” …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLeeds As a 20-year old organizer directing the staff of the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization from Boston my few forays into Washington, D.C. to the national office on 14th Street NW were wide-eyed adventures to a city I had only visited once as a foot solider …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSheffield ACORN in the United Kingdom is known largely as the ACORN Tenants’ Union, and no matter where we have organized, the affordable housing crisis has come to the forefront even though there is a long list of other issues. We have embraced our reputation and work …