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/CN07182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River Portland, Oregon is a long way from the rest of the country, squeezed between Seattle and California, the lower Cascades and the Pacific Ocean. Every once in a great while it sneaks into the nation’s consciousness as the home of “Portlandia” hipsters, coffee houses, …
New Orleans Eastern Oregon is an interesting part of the West. Tourists think of the northwestern biosphere as wet and woolly, Portland and Seattle, big trees and five-foot tall ferns, but once you get over the Cascades into eastern Washington and Oregon, its high desert, few trees, lots of cows and much like the rest …
New Orleans Obvious disclosure: I’m a huge proponent of the strategic and tactical value of local and statewide initiative on our issues to build organizational power and actually win campaign results. This is obvious given the number of living wage, lifeline utility, sales tax on food & medicine, generic drug, minimum wage increase, and single …