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/2019/11/CN11112019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Democracy is under assault everywhere it seems, and, no, I’m not just taking about the White House. Russia is busy interfering with elections in, are you ready for this, Madagascar. How did this out of the way island become a focus of geopolitics? India, …
New Orleans Money in politics, boo! For years under the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision money has flooded into politics like water, as the superrich, corporations, and others try to buy their way through an ostensibly democratic system. Billionaires and bigtime millionaires, whether Trump or Daddy Starbucks or Bloomberg on the national level or …
New Orleans Gaslighting is an interesting concept, but when I first heard the term, frankly, it meant nothing to me. Talking to psychologist and attorney Bryant Welch on Wade’s World gave me a much clearer understanding of the concept and its dangers. According to Wikipedia “the term owes its origin to the 1938 Patrick …