New Orleans A large coalition ranging from ACORN to the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and NAACP has come together along with our usual comrades, the Center for Responsible Lending, Consumers Federation of America, Consumers Union, and others to try a new and very public tactic in the ongoing war against predatory lending. We’re going Madison …
Category: ACORN
Big Box Partners
Orlando WARN and all of our allies went to the first reading and hearing in Orlando for the Big Box Ordinance in the County on Tuesday night. I had come in for meetings with the staff and, originally, for the hearing until it was scheduled for the evening rather than the morning at the last …
Organizer’s Book Club
San Antonio Around this time every year as part of the training and staff development program at ACORN we hold a dialogue of interested organizers. This year the topic was development and implementation of multinational campaigns so we could look at models from other campaigns, read some about work done by other organizations, and examines …