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".
April 24, 2021 Pearl River The Guardian refers to the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, as one of the “most influential books of the 20th century.” I would say the book is that and more. It sold four million copies at least, and that doesn’t count the dogeared copies that were ubiquitous and passed around …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having said for decades that in any group it is always possible, through observation and listening, to identify the organizers, the leaders, and the underlying structure, no matter how informal and supposedly anti-hierarchical and structureless the formation, I was thunderstruck to see the mention …
Calgary Rick Ross, the rapper, was groveling a little bit late in his game. He waited until he felt the pain in his pocketbook when Reebok, the giant shoemaker, dropped his ass for lyrics that gave props to rape after giving women knockout drugs. Even after the Steubenville, Ohio football fiasco, Reebok waited too late as …