The videos below are from Wade’s appearance at the ‘Lessons from ACORN’ panel organized by Oregon State Professor Marisa Chappell at the national conference of the Organization of American Historians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Category: ACORN
ACORN Brand Burns Hot as Witch Hunt Continues
New Orleans Election Day of 2010 ACORN in the United States closed its doors, but the ACORN brand still burns hot and true as the rightwing whacko witch hunt continues unabated. Coming into another election season where not only voter suppression but wholesale attacks on anything remotely progressive are likely to be on the menu …
John Lewis and the New Fight for Voting Rights
Houston The lion in winter is still a lion, and John Lewis, a beacon for the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and now a longstanding Congressman from Atlanta, roared in the halls of Congress the other night about voting rights once again. The simple issue that pushed his button was the hater amendment from another …