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/2020/03/CN03162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans We all feel like we’re caught in the eye of the pandemic storm, but our collective empathy doesn’t necessarily make us feel safer and more secure. New Orleans’ Mayor LaToya Cantrell, almost as an aside, mentions that our public health officials are worried …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is THE tourist and local extravaganza in New Orleans. The noblesse oblige historic parade krewes with the old white kings and young debutante queens throwing beads to the masses is a hard swallow even as the parades have become …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The headline may have said that Iran sent twenty missiles at two Iraqi bases where US troops and materials were stationed, but the picture in my local paper was equally disturbing. It showed New Orleans police officers armed to the gills with machine guns, …