Food Prices are Too High

ACORN International Canada Disparities Housing

            New Orleans      During the campaign discussion at the ACORN Canada YE/YB there was ongoing attention to the financialization of housing, winning heating and cooling thresholds for tenants, and expanding internet access, but there was also a proposal from the Toronto organizers that sparked an interesting discussion.  Members at local meetings kept bringing up …

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Lead Pipe Poisoning Should be a Priority

ACORN International Canada Tenants

            Stoney Lake, Ontario      The ACORN Canada organizers spent a lot of time on their agenda discussing various strategies to implement retrofits by our members in Eco-Tenant Unions organizing and pressuring landlords to get the job done.  In the discussion, a common complaint surfaced.  Where the tenants paid the water utility, called hydro in …

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Membership Makes Haiti Personal

ACORN International Canada

    Washington     Haiti seems snakebit.  Hurricanes, assassinations, corruption, gang control, vigilante killings, the list goes on and on.  Presidents Bush (the first) and Clinton try to raise money for rebuilding, and the problems persist.  The United Nations goes in and becomes part of the problem.  Days ago, someone is finally held accountable for killing the …

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