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/2020/04/CN04282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Today, I’m sharing a guest piece that I contributed to the Working-Class Perspectives series on the even of May Day and during a difficult time for workers around the world. May Day 2020: Workers in the Pandemic Time Posted on April 27, 2020 by Working-Class …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River As the economic numbers become more stark, and the economy teeters towards something closer to a depression than a recession, the impact on workers and the poor that has been hidden in plain sight for years is now almost impossible to ignore. Researchers, pundits, reporters, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A lot of Silicon Valley are self-isolating in what should be shame as their app-based, platform capitalism, or whatever they wanted to call it, is exposed as little more than rapacious capitalism based on worker exploitation. Hundreds of thousands of workers in the gig …