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/2020/05/CN05222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Remember way back in another lifetime, pre-pandemic, before the coronavirus global killer wave? It seems years ago, but it was only last summer that ACORN’s French affiliate, Alliance Citoyenne, gained huge attention throughout France and all of Europe and the Francophone world, when our members …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN031720202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville Talking to ACORN’s head organizer in France from one of the organization’s offices in Lyon was something of an other-worldly experience. He was cancelling a train trip to Paris and had only hours to get back to his home in Grenoble. The President of France has …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans For months ACORN’s affiliate in France, the Alliance Citoyenne, has been campaigning first in Grenoble and then in Lyon and other cities around the ban on the Muslim women from public spaces if they were wearing a hijab or other face, head or body-covering …