Little Rock Whether governments in power like it or not, a fairly minimal requirement involved in the pretense to democratic norms is the right to protest, whether it be a demand for change or action against injustice. Sometimes just protests have been powerful enough to bring governments down, pass needed laws, and undo …
Category: Protests
Britain’s Crazy Crackdown on Demonstrations
New Orleans ACORN in the United Kingdom is one of our fastest growing affiliates, so I keep up with some of the obstacles we face in organizing. One of them is the radical steps the government is taking to curtail all manner of protests, as well as free speech. I started looking into …
Out the Door in ’24 – Trump for Republican Nominee
Pearl River In 1984, ACORN organized what we called “Reagan Ranches” all over the country, recalling the famous Hoovervilles, to protest Reagan economic policies impacting our membership. In a similar “ranch”, organized along the trickle of a river in Dallas during the Republican national convention, we slept and marched under a banner that proclaimed, …