New Orleans If you’re living anywhere in the southern United States it pays to be careful before you start tut-tuting about those crazy racists over in South Carolina about flying the Confederate battle flag over their state capitol. You can read at Atlantic Flag and Pole blog to get your own flag, the exact …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Medical Debt, Organizing Reunions, and Restorations
Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh ACORN Family Reunion Picnic organized by ANEW Institute in Homestead was battling bad weather forecasts and real raindrops that moved the affair from the park to the porch of the Baker House on 11th. The score of folks who came by couldn’t have cared less, because they got to see the progress on the renovation …
ACORN Demands the Bank of Montreal Stop Predatory Practices
Montreal As the ACORN members lined up in Victoria Square in the downtown business district of historic Montreal, you could hear their chants for blocks as they cried: “predatory lender, criminal offender.” First, they stopped briefly to deliver a letter demanding that the telcom, Videotron, owned by Quebecor, provide “internet for all” through a low …