And Then the Deluge

ACORN Climate Change FEMA Wade's World

            Marble Falls       Recently in workshops ACORN has done with the Anthropocene Alliance in New Orleans and Atlanta with more coming soon in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Port Arthur, Texas, we have used a campaign exercise for the small groups about flooding.  Many of the participants come from frontline groups that know …

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Stopping Voter Suppression on the Front Lines

ACORN Elections Voting Voting Rights

             Amsterdam      Unbelievably, there are now organized teams of people working to suppress the vote, especially in battleground states, by convincing local election officials to needlessly, and illegally, purge voters from the roles.  ACORN’s Voter Purge Project has monitored an increasing number of states since 2019, largely at the macro-level, looking for anomalies on large …

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Don’t Blame Acorns

ACORN

            Katmandu       For a long, long time, I’ve had a Google Alert for ACORN.  How else would I have been able to keep up with the roses and brickbats thrown in our path?  Sure, there were times like Thanksgiving and deer season where my feed would be inundated with news of either the size of …

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