Pearl River Who would have imagined that lower income families would ever find themselves thankful for parliamentary rules? Not me, for sure! Yet, somehow, miracles never cease, and we’re getting a break from the parliamentarian of the US Senate, as she goes through the budget reconciliation pretense that powers Trump and the Republican’s …
Category: ACORN
For ACORN’s Birthday, Give an Action!
Pearl River Fifty-five is old, there’s no two ways about it. ACORN celebrated its 55th birthday on June 18th, having been founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Now, with almost 300,000 members among lower income communities and lower waged workplaces in more than 15 countries, like people that age, the organization has …
The Leaders Speak about Progress
Pearl River Once upon a time, more than twenty years ago, when ACORN expanded internationally, we used to say it would not have been possible without email, cheaper plane fares, and Skype. We still have email, but plane fares are hardly cheap, even though they can still get us there when we need to …


