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".
June 16, 2021 San Francisco Talking to a longtime colleague and friend yesterday in the Mission in San Francisco, where pockets are still stubbornly trying to resist gentrification, invariably the conversation settled quickly into the Amazon watch, and we’re not talking about rainforest, unless that means the tech empire where money currently seems to be …
June 9, 2021 New Orleans In third grade, as a new arrival to New Orleans, we were bused to the decrepit, now condemned, and long gone, giant wooden Lakeview Elementary School. Mrs. Quirk, my teacher, was a character that I’ll never forget, not so much for what she taught me, although I remember being fascinated …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Foundations created by corporations and the superrich are multi-headed monster of tax havens and public relations that combine to whitewash a story for the people down below that makes us swallow rather than spit. The latest examples have Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s …