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/CN01222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester A lot changes in eighteen months. I was in Manchester for the first time as our new chapter of ACORN in the United Kingdom was organizing in July 2018. I found the city pretty impressive, though didn’t get to see much of it in a quick …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFort Lauderdale The voters came out from under the rocks and jumped over the hedgerows to vote for the Conservatives behind weird and wacky Boris Johnson in the recent snap election in Britain. Labour took a drubbing, even in the northern districts that had been their equivalent …
Limerick Hitting the ground in Dublin, Nick Ballard, ACORN UK head organizer, and I jumped in the car with Tomas O’Loingsigh and Seamus Farrell, and we were on our way to visit with activists at the Darndale housing estate in North Dublin. The social housing complex numbered over 5000 units stretched over quite a piece …