St. Petersburg: Over recent months WARN assembled a community alliance that consisted of ACORN groups, civic associations, the Sierra Club, the local labor council, and a bunch of others to speak clearly to the city fathers of St. Petersburg, Florida, on the question of exactly why did Wal-Mart need to build a store on Gandy Road …
Author: wade
ACORN Cleaning Up at 35 Years
New Orleans: For the last several years ACORN has celebrated its anniversary in a way that seems totally consistent with the history and roots of the organization by organizing a National Neighborhood Clean-up Day. For an organization with almost 800 community chapters whose membership is initially recruited and always remains committed to the grassroots where …
Arnold – It’s On!
More than 1000 California ACORN members accompanied by allies from, faith based networks, the California teachers, SEIU, and many other unions and community groups marched in Sacramento to protest the devastating cuts of the Schwarzenegger budget. ACORN was serving notice on the “Gubenator” that we would not stand for government terrorism against our schools, communities, …