The Dollars Driving Landlords to Evict Aren’t Big Time

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12192019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      The landlord ideology about tenants is based on a narrative mythology that whenever they evict, it is because their tenants are deadbeats and scofflaws.  Landlords having powerful local and national organizations and a much louder voice than their tenants have been selling this swill for …

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Dealing with Domestic Abuse with Databases and Risk Assessment

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12192019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock       I don’t like to think about domestic abuse.  It makes me sad.  It makes me mad.  I can watch the blood-and-gore on police procedurals on TV or Netflix or whatever, and pretend it’s make believe, but harming women and children is a head turner and …

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Voter Purges Coming in Wisconsin and Georgia

ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       A Georgia judge allowed a 300,000 voter purge to happen hours ago in that state.  A lawsuit filed by Fair Vote Action seeking to prevent the purge will happen later this week on the constitutional argument that voters should be maintained on the rolls.  …

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