New Orleans I was sitting next to an organizer from British Columbia while reading the reports on the new set of regulations being proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on payday lending. We have fought payday lenders in Canada for over a decade and we’re batting over .500, but a long way from a …
Category: ACORN
Vancouver Rent Bank
Gatineau, Canada There may have been snow on the ground and freezing temperatures, but the ACORN Canada staff’s spring planning and training meeting was in full bloom in Gatineau, Quebec, the sister city across the river from Ottawa, Ontario. Several of the ACORN British Columbia organizers in their reports to start the sessions mentioned in …
Getting a Low Power FM Radio License in New Orleans
Ottawa Over the years with an army of volunteers from supporters to DJs to radio engineers with gentle spirits, hard heads, and generous souls, working with AM/FM, the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement, we’ve put big radio stations on the air first in Tampa (WMNF), then revived and put one back on the air in Dallas (KNON, …