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/CN06162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The New York Times print edition featured a two-page spread overlaying the map of the United States in a special Black Lives Matter section. Across the map were the names of the 2000 cities and towns where there had been protests in a recent …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans All around the world this is a familiar story, often marking the beginning of the end for dictators, autocrats, and even elected leaders that have outstayed their peoples’ welcome. There’s a direct correlation, approaching an iron law, in so many countries that when popular …
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 …