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/2020/09/CN09292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We have to take progress where we can get it in these dark days at perhaps the tail end of the Trump administration. There are scores of last-minute aberrations from muscling an appointment to the Supreme Court to further eroding labor law protections that are …
New Orleans Naomi Klein, the author, reporter and documentarian from Canada, busted the Nature Conservancy and its corporate captivity with an early leak from a coming book revealing that they were more than willing to break their “no drilling” pledge on lands they hold in Texas in order to collect millions in royalties from oil …
New Orleans A picture in the Times of “Big Sandy,” the 1100 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Eastern Kentucky being shutdown finally over the next three years by the giant utility company, American Electric Power, brought back memories of a great fight 40 years ago in and around Pine Bluff, Arkansas where what is now …