Montreal We were meeting on a cold afternoon in the new offices of the Immigrant Workers’ Center with a host of organizations and activists in Montreal much like a “focus” group of sorts on ACORN Canada and ACORN International and how they might fit and contribute to the ongoing work in this great city. People …
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Judge Orders Permanent Injunction to Block ACORN Defunding
Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides. Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly veiled …
Shooting Straight as Pressure Increases
Washington It’s not spring here, but finally there is a briskness in peoples’ step. Tomorrow there is a major rally for heath care reform called by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and on Sunday, March 21st, the forces in favor of comprehensive immigration reform are rallying, praying, and marching on the Mall, hopefully with …