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/2020/03/CN03212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Brothers and sisters, it’s bad. Furthermore, it’s getting worse! Piled on to that, it will get much, much worse, before there’s even a hint of it getting better. A recession has a simple economic definition. Any two quarters of falling economic activity earns the title. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans On the USA pandemic map, there’s a big fat circle around New Orleans now along with New York, San Francisco, and Boston, some of the oldest cities in the country. Of course, Miami and Los Angeles are also hotspots. In New Orleans, we can …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A lot of Silicon Valley are self-isolating in what should be shame as their app-based, platform capitalism, or whatever they wanted to call it, is exposed as little more than rapacious capitalism based on worker exploitation. Hundreds of thousands of workers in the gig …