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/2020/07/CN07122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Paying attention to President Trump’s tweets is a fool’s errand, best delegated to journalists paid for the practice. These are “thought bombs” sometimes disguised as policy or personnel decisions. They are “Mission Impossible” instructions that dissolve or explode in many cases almost as soon as …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08182019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Cases continue to mount, marching forward on an almost daily basis, where we watch the rich attempt to greenwash their wealth and reputations for their private interests and tax benefits and distort the privileges that are claimed by philanthropy. Ghislaine Maxwell, sometime consort and alleged …
Milwaukee Amani United, like a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon, is an embryonic organization attempting to emerge from its status as a project of a larger organization into a membership, resident-led organization that can spread its own wings and fly. On this point everyone agrees, including the leadership core of Amani United and …