Pittsburgh: After 35 years it had to happen, first with small steps and now with a big leap, the ACORN Executive Board continued to move forward with great excitement in its endorsement of common clothing to send a message into communities around the world of ACORN that seeing a red shirt with the ACORN logo …
Category: Community Organizing
Peru: Primera Reunion Grande
Lima: Palomino was a ranging complex of several thousand apartment units that had been built in the mid-1960’s as housing for workers by the government of the Municipality of Lima. Families now owned their apartments, and given the economy of Peru over recent years, these units were now home to many generations of a family …
WARN 1 — Wal-Mart 0
St. Petersburg: Over recent months WARN assembled a community alliance that consisted of ACORN groups, civic associations, the Sierra Club, the local labor council, and a bunch of others to speak clearly to the city fathers of St. Petersburg, Florida, on the question of exactly why did Wal-Mart need to build a store on Gandy Road …