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".
Pearl River We should all know the name, Thomas Midgley? He was a chemist for General Motors almost one-hundred years ago, when General Motors and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of New Jersey were the Google and Facebook of their day, or maybe I should say Google and Facebook are the GM and Standard Oil of today. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Maybe I’m wrong? Maybe I just woke up with a manic pandemic depression about the current pandemic depression? Maybe it’s always like this, and I haven’t noticed it as much until lately, but it seems like every time I pick up the papers in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09242020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock Corporate chieftains’ claims that there is even such a thing as shareholder democracy has always been akin to an edict pronounced at a North Korean military parade to the assembled masses. The notion that the little shareholder has a voice in corporate governance is …