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/2020/02/CN02172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans With the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency leading the way to gut the Community Reinvestment Act along with some other federal regulators, the last thing we should be doing is having to remind everyone, including the government and its legions of politicians, about …
Little Rock Among the unforeseen consequences of the perversion of tax rates and the massive shifting of wealth to the one-tenth of one percent, is that now rather than the superrich just building hospitals, buying sports teams, getting university lecture halls named after them, and supporting the local symphony and arts museum, which most of …
New Orleans We were in Boston and the videographer kept looking at his phone while filming and even leaving the room. At the early afternoon break I told him we were going off the record for a couple of hours. “Good,” he said, “I need to leave for Connecticut, have you heard what has happened there.” …