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/2020/11/CN10162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a moment of youthful recklessness more than fifty years ago, I allowed myself to get into one of those dangerous political conversations with the father of a woman I was seeing. He was a good, decent guy and Republican to the core, even …
Milwaukee Name an American men’s soccer player? Who can do that? Name a US women’s soccer player, and Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, and others perhaps immediately come to mind. After all they have won four women’s World Cups since women players had such a tournament, and the other day won their second consecutive cup. Just …
Don’t get me wrong, New Zealand is no perfect pearl. There’s a bounty of issues. Inequality is rising dramatically. Sprawl around Auckland is a huge issue. Environmental impacts on some of the island is devastating. There are interesting signs of progress though, and they are worth looking at closely. There are too many reminders of …