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/2019/09/CN09152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis Saturday before the election in Tunisia, another huge test of the fragile democracy forged during the Arab Spring, there was quiet. The election rules had ended debates and public campaigning the day before the election. In fact, the Organizers’ Forum had to reschedule one of …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cn09142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis There are some difficult paradoxes involved in understanding the situation for labor unions, and for that matter, workers, in Tunisia. It is fair to say that the large labor federation UGTT is the only union anywhere in the world to get a slice of a Nobel …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09132019..mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis The Organizer’s Forum delegation, coming from Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Kenya, and Cameroon, began the morning, appropriately, with a briefing on the developments in Tunisia since the Arab Spring. A large Organizers’ Forum delegation had visited Egypt within the first year of the …