Hartford Professor Don Green from Yale made the point in a dry, but dramatic, manner: do the tests, make them random, and then let the data speak. He was talking about measuring the results of ACORN in get out the vote efforts in Phoenix, Bridgeport, Detroit, and elsewhere. For the money and the impact there …
Month: December 2005
ACORN Perspectives at UCONN
Hartford I arrived as Peter Drier from Occidental College finished his paper and Frances Fox Piven from GUNY presented her views on the tensions between protest and electoral politics. The fur was flying in the genteel manner of the academy. It was a wonderful experience to be a “fly on the wall,” as serious thinkers worried …
Second Wind Webcast
New Orleans Professor Robert Fisher of the University of Connecticut in his invitation to researchers and scholars to come together this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and look at the impacts of ACORN over 35 years intriguingly refers to the “second wind” of ACORN and its growth. In response a dozen odd scholars have rallied …