New Orleans As the teams of ACORN Home Savers Campaign student volunteers came in from the field on Sunday afternoon with their reports on the families they visited who were under various housing contracts in Memphis, the stories were stirring and profound. Having been greenhorns on Saturday, now many of them spoke in the language …
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Launching the ACORN Home Savers Campaign in Memphis
Memphis After several days in Arkansas working with Vision Property Management owner-occupants from Jacksonville to West Memphis, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign was preparing to dive into Memphis. Of course, we wanted to follow up with Vision owner-occupants there, but we were also interested in some of the other large rent-to-own and contract purchase companies …
Facebook Could be a Powerful Organizing Recruitment Tool, If We Could Afford
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/All_that_we_are.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was an intriguing and in some ways unsettling piece in the New York Times recently about the growing power of Facebook and friends called “The Ads That Know Everything” by Burt Helm. The title of the piece in the online version lowered the “fright” …