Yangon Dr. Thaung Htun had been the head of the foreign section of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front. When all hell broke loose he fled along with other student leaders only to return about 25 years later after the country removed front leaders from the blacklist. He had formed a nonprofit in the US …
Category: ACORN International
Canada’s New Supergroup, Unifor, and Community Chapters
Oshawa I was actually excited about the senior ACORN Canada organizer’s meeting in Oshawa, Ontario, an hour supposedly but much more in steady traffic from Toronto. This town of more than 100,000 now was the site of the famous auto strike by the UAW with General Motors that was so critical almost 75 years ago …
Will We Finally Win Justice from Lead Paint Manufacturers?
New Orleans In 1978 paint companies were barred in the United States from using lead in paint used in homes, yet for 35 years paint companies, including the giants like Sherwin-Williams, have successfully avoided having to take any real responsibility for poisoning so many. Worse, ACORN International has found repeated evidence that some of these …