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/CN04272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I’ve got no complaints. Regular calls around the world tell me every day how lucky we are. We have a roof over our heads, so we in fact can shelter-in-place, and that’s not true for hundreds of millions. We have food to eat and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I didn’t know Rev. William Barnwell or his family well, but I knew them for a long time and in many different capacities. I first met Barnwell and some of his family when we were organizing the Household Workers Organizing Committee, a union of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN031720202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville Talking to ACORN’s head organizer in France from one of the organization’s offices in Lyon was something of an other-worldly experience. He was cancelling a train trip to Paris and had only hours to get back to his home in Grenoble. The President of France has …