Why ACORN and the Cartels and Not the State?

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans       I had to do a doubletake.  What in the world?  There were pictures of armed men with masks giving out food and protective gear in Mexican barrios.  Another picture, eerily like the ones Local 100 representatives and members had taken during distribution with …

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Making It and Taking It, Trump Administration Style

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     In a Netflix “Narcos Mexico” rip-off, a paralegal is now facing charges for having tipped off a Mexican drug cartel about investigations and raids while working as a paralegal for the US Attorney for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio.  That’s a made …

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Masks and Food for the People

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     ACORN and its affiliates are direct action, mass-based organizations.  Some now ask, how do we explain the fact that we also, especially now, deliver what many would only expect of service-based outfits?   Easy answer: a membership-based organization has to be able to respond to the …

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