New Orleans We have been lucky the last month. ACORN International has enjoyed the help of a smart and adventuresome young woman, Luba Batembergska, from Sofia, Bulgaria with wide interests in social justice, environment, education, and social welfare. We have tried to embed her deeply in various organizing field experiences to give her tools and …
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Hey, Google, Weren’t Happy with Congress? Well, Meet ACORN!
New Orleans Recent years have been abundantly kind for those in big tech, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and the like. Money flowing like water. Arrogance and pomposity unchallenged by empty slogans disguised behind corporate speak claiming interest in the common good. Recently they have had some harder days testifying before Congressional committees and bipartisan approbation …
The Coming and Current Crisis: Rising Rents and Evictions
Little Rock Cause and effect. Truth and consequences. What goes around, comes around. Pick your favorite, but it was virtually inevitable that when you have a residential housing bubble explode, a recession, massive foreclosures, wipe out 30-years of home ownership gains among African-Americans and Latinos, and tighten credit markets and standards for low-and-moderate income families, …