New Orleans In December ACORN International released its study and survey of remittances entitled Past Time for Remittance Justice (www.remittancejustice.org) . The bottom line is that we demanded that banks and money transfer organizations (MTOs, i.e. Western Union and MoneyGram) reduce all charges and fees for transferring money from migrant workers and immigrant families back to [...]
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Toronto Given the housing and foreclosure crisis in the United States, it was not surprising to see that homeownership rates have fallen rapidly in recent years. The Wall Street Journal published an estimate saying: The nation’s home-ownership rate is also falling, to 67% of U.S. households in 2010, after topping 69% in 2004, according to [...] Miami Here and there I had run into Gibran Perera, the director of the Miami Workers’ Center, and had heard of the operation over the years. He spoke at the Tides’ Foundation Momentum conference several years ago on the “right to the city” which held interest. Looking for a way to give ACORN Canada [...] Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada with Dewey Armstrong Miami Being in Miami with the ACORN Canada staff as they plan for the next year and how to expand “coast-to-coast” on federal issue, it seemed like a good time to reach out to Dewey Armstrong, the first ACORN political director and one of [...] Phoenix In Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton ACORN International and ACORN Canada joined today to dramatically step up the international campaign to achieve improved access and fair pricing for remittances from immigrant families and their relatives in their home countries. Today in Toronto Kay Bisnah, President of ACORN International, also unveiled an extensive report underpinning [...] Vancouver Even as the regional leaders of the BCGEU were strategizing with me on Friday morning about living wage campaigns in their cities and raising the minimum wage in British Columbia, according to the Prince George Free Press the local City Council had reneged on a pledge made in 2007 to the support an [...] ACORN Canada members Preeti and Pascal with Wade. Vancouver At Douglas College in New Westminster, hard by Vancouver, more than 30 ACORN Canada members and friends, gathered to watch the Dharavi documentary, WASTE, on ACORN International’s organizing of waste pickers, and to dig deep in their pockets to support our organizing in Latin America, [...] |
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