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/2020/10/CN10292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Storms around Labor Day get my full attention. Betsy hit hard in the fall of 1965 right after school began and took more than a week to get everything back in gear. Katrina in 2005 hit at the end of August and decimated …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A funny thing happened to platform capitalism and its predatory business model in Louisiana of all places making the experience there a case in point. Being Louisiana, the fact that somehow booze triggered the revelation almost makes the story too good to be true. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12102019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Those of us who live in Louisiana or care about the role of the state and its people in public affairs are just as sorry as we can be every time our junior Senator John Kennedy tries to take the stage with cameras running …