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/2020/02/CN02122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, so what better time to talk about the still unresolved, raw issues around race that continue more than 150 years after his death. Evidence abounds that you can’t run from issues around race, as we examine increased scrutiny of Democratic …
Milwaukee A funny thing happened on the way to the 2020 presidential primaries in the long shadow of the Great Recession of 2007: Democrats are finally discovering the tenants living right under their noses, and the fact that the American dream is no longer home ownership, it’s affordable housing. One candidate after another, elbowing to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Glen-Campbell-01-Easy-Come-Easy-Go-3447580.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Just when Halloween was over, we have to live through another ghost story. As a distraction, some publicity hounds are drooling over speculation that Hillary Clinton could run for President in 2020, and even more improbably, would win the nomination. This is what happens when …