Vancouver What a treat spending time with the ACORN Canada staff in the Vancouver area in our New Westminster office! The organizers in the morning and the leaders in the evening wanted to brainstorm about current campaigns they were conducting to great effect. Roll up the sleeves and let’s get to work! Over the weekend …
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Just the Facts and Watching our Backs on Wikipedia
Vancouver There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us. I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …
Hating on ACORN as Election Countdown Nears in USA
Victoria We are hardly more than a week until the USA Presidential election and predictably the conservative rightwing is pulling out the big guns and narrowing their sights for the kill, but surprisingly many are still aimed at ACORN, now almost two years gone. Sure, it’s not as bad as it was four years ago. One …