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/2019/11/CN11132019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville Some months ago I was reading about the demise of a significant social service and advocacy organization. A former executive director, David Tobis, who had also written a book about the organization and was one of its founders was quoted saying, “Movements start, they rise, they …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The answer to the perpetually plaguing question of why we have such intractable poverty in the United States, arguably the richest country in the world, is always perplexing. Every comparison of the US with other economically developed countries finds us at or near the …
Nairobi Talking to ACORN Kenya organizers and leaders, one thing jumped to the top of the conversation quickly when education was raised, and it was not the poor quality of the books and classrooms this time, it was food, specifically school lunches. Everyone from slumdweller to education expert agrees that a child’s ability to …