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Reckoning Coming for Home Modification Failures

New Orleans The good news is that more people are recognizing that the Administration’s HAMP program designed to achieve home mortgage modifications and prevent foreclosures has been a dismal failure.   The bad news is that the Republicans are arguing that rather than fix it and actually prevent foreclosures, the program should be killed to save [...]

Community Organizing is a Revolutionary Tool

New Orleans I retweeted something last week where someone had said, “Glenn Beck takes the left more seriously than anyone else,” or words to that affect, simply because it was true. For all of his buffoonery and conspiracy theories, Beck is on to something: he knows community organizing is [...]

Super Volunteers with a Super Idea for Micro-Finance Borrowers – Help!

New Orleans ACORN International is hard at work right now on pulling together all of the pieces and pressure on [...]

Are we Hearing the Death Knell for Unions?

New Orleans The backdrop to the great excitement and fight back in Wisconsin, Ohio, and India for the labor movement seems to be a very black curtain that some are trying to pull across the stage.  The evidence seems everywhere.  Steven Greenhouse, one of the last labor reporters, sounded the death knell in the [...]

Little Hope for Reform in Foreclosure Settlement Negotiations

New Orleans The industry spins the numbers differently each month.  Foreclosures are rising, but somehow housing markets are being revived by refinancing.  Little of it makes sense and often the information is contradictory, but the bottom line is that housing is still in dire straits across the country.  The home mortgage modification program has [...]

The Return of Lending Discrimination by Banks

New Orleans Finally there is some small notice of the fact that banks are abandoning the poor and their neighborhoods.  [...]

Collective Bargaining Under Attack

New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin.  After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a group, so I’ve been inundated with hyperbolic messages that find the pushback in Wisconsin by labor heroic [...]

Head Scratching over Water Issues in San Pedro and Neza

ACORN Mexico members through the colonias where we are organizing inMexico City with Suyapa Amador, the head organizer of ACORN Mexico, and various of our leaders, [...]

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