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/CN10172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock For five years my family said we lived in Rangely, Colorado on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in the far northwestern corner of the state. We were closer to Vernal, Utah, and what is now the Dinosaur National Monument, than we were to …
New Orleans I was raised in the oil fields of the West, as my family moved from company towns in Wyoming and Colorado to old fields in Kentucky and finally to the motherlode in New Orleans near the huge Gulf of Mexico and False River strikes. My father punched their clock for 38 years …
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wadesworldfeb7.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Some months ago the City of Richmond in California, long seen as little more than a company town for the giant oil conglomerate, Chevron, rose to the attention of millions of families still trying to sort out the problems of threatened foreclosures. Richmond uniquely …