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/CN12132019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsQuebec City Even as the Brexit landslide seemed to be building in the formerly United Kingdom, the European Union leadership was piecing together an ambitious plan to achieve climate goals by 2050. Their plan was to reach net-zero in carbon emissions at that point in a sweeping …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09052019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmersfoort, Netherlands In these days, perhaps in all days, when autocracy, as a strategy and set of tactics, seems so attractive to so many politicians and wannabe royals in their lust for power under any terms, there’s some small comfort in seeing such techniques come to wreck …
Little Rock Over and over again I would ask members, organizers, activists and others, “What’s the skinny on Brexit? What’s it going to mean to us and our people?” The answer was almost invariably a shrug and one of those looks that says, “who the heck knows?” That’s not to say there aren’t a lot …