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/2020/04/CN04052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River What do mass-based organizations and social movements do when their tactics of mass action, disruption, and street protests are impossible due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing? Do collective actions simply devolve into solitary moans on social media? No, never! Mass-based organizations assemble the base …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In the Age of Trump and the Time of the Coronavirus, there seems to be constant speculation about what changes in our society, habits, and government might be permanent given our collective experience. Much of this is hyperbole. One pundit argued that he went “to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In the “time of the virus,” I talked to Jackie Dartz, a member of the Local 100 United Labor Unions executive board and longtime steward at LARC, the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens, about direct care workers that were at the frontlines about their …