Minneapolis ACORN has been going hammer and tong with subprime companies, mortgage servicers, banks, securitizers, and everyone in between for the last 18 months. We have been Cassandra yelling about the coming doom that everyone denied until finally conceding that 3.5M households are in danger of foreclosures. The Treasury Department and the industry have …
Category: ACORN
Employee Free Choice
New York City No stronger case was made at the recent dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum of the critical opportunity to increase progressive capacity and impact additionally on equity than the one made by the labor participants from the AFT, SEIU, UFCW, and the AFL-CIO. Stewart Acuff, the AFL’s Organizing Director, and Fred Azarcate, …
Attacking Mortgage Fraud
St. Petersburg The ACORN committee, including Aaron Pridgin, a national board member from Florida, and Gloria Sweiringa, a national board member from Maryland, had met for hours with the management team from Ocwen Financial Services in their West Palm Beach offices. Looking under the hood, they were nowhere near as bad as we …