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/2019/11/CN11082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans At six in the morning I found myself opening the gate to our offices on St. Claude recently. The night before my computer had somehow begun separating the keyboard from the screen, making it unusable. I had a small ASUS emergency backup in my …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09052019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmersfoort, Netherlands In these days, perhaps in all days, when autocracy, as a strategy and set of tactics, seems so attractive to so many politicians and wannabe royals in their lust for power under any terms, there’s some small comfort in seeing such techniques come to wreck …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08282019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville New York City added a right to legal counsel for tenants facing eviction. It made a difference with the city’s eviction rate falling from almost 29000 in 2013 to only a bit over 18000 in last year. Nationally, it is likely that more than 2.5 million …