New Orleans Election Day of 2010 ACORN in the United States closed its doors, but the ACORN brand still burns hot and true as the rightwing whacko witch hunt continues unabated. Coming into another election season where not only voter suppression but wholesale attacks on anything remotely progressive are likely to be on the menu …
Category: Voting Rights
Organizing Plans with News from Walmart, Facebook, Spain, and Florida Voting Suppression
Mexico City The annual meeting of the ACORN International board continued its meetings for a second day in Mexico City, as they conferred on fundamental issues of support for existing work, self-sufficiency and support and expansion into new areas like Sicily and Liberia. Additional reports were heard from Mexico on the Neza water campaign and received …
John Lewis and the New Fight for Voting Rights
Houston The lion in winter is still a lion, and John Lewis, a beacon for the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and now a longstanding Congressman from Atlanta, roared in the halls of Congress the other night about voting rights once again. The simple issue that pushed his button was the hater amendment from another …