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 Just when I thought I might be out of my element and moving into the quicksand of squishy opinions in areas outside of my expertise, I just caught a lifeline thanks to Scientific American. Ok, what the heck am I talking about? Careful readers and listeners may remember my objections to the way …
New Orleans It probably goes without saying that we’re a long way from Hollywood, but recently we got to watch a sneak preview of a rough cut of a documentary called MisLead, The Secret Epidemic being produced by the nonprofit Lead Safe America Foundation and its director, and filmmaker, Tamara Rubin, from Portland, Oregon. As …