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/2019/12/CN12022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In modern politics obsessions run hot and heavy as election day looms ahead. One cycle it might be microtargeting with sophisticated databases categorizing voters and messages. Another cycle it’s small donors and social media. But for my money, there’s still nothing like the ground …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We knew it was coming. When the American Voters Project combined with ACORN International and Labor Neighbor Research and Action Project to create the Voter Purge Project one of our first conversations was about adding Georgia to the list of states we needed to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The persistent political canard has been that, sure, you can register young people, but most of them are not going to vote. The Trump turmoil and the urgency of climate change is overturning whatever conventional wisdom that might have been attached to that notion …