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/2020/06/CN06072020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Ol’ Donald Trump dropping like a rock with no one to catch his fall. He doesn’t want to talk about race, because he sounds even more the fool than usual. Most recent example was his description of George Floyd, hardly in his grave after …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River It’s totally over now. No way of pretending that sports and politics are not welded at the hip, peas in the same pod anymore. Of course, this has been true forever, but the cultural and corporate presumption, when it served the interests of power, were …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock There have been ten days of protests now over the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of the Minneapolis police. The issues are clear: police brutality that manifests the systemic, unresolved racism in America. People are stirring. The streets are full. …