New Orleans As we were debating next steps for ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign in Bristol, it was exciting to hear that Italy and Honduras are beginning to make more progress in taking the steps to get legislative assemblies to regulate the costs of transfers, and certainly as ACORN grows in the United Kingdom there …
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Group Finally Stepping Up to Handle Donations for Wikileaks and Others
New Orleans A group of folks has finally stepped into the gap and created a nonprofit channeling capacity for donations to Wikileaks and other important, but unpopular groups protecting free speech and guaranteeing more transparency for the public. The Freedom of the Press Foundation is pretty much just a “scarecrow” site at its current launch …
Banks Silently Step up on Remittances
Atlanta On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) we have had difficulty getting any response from the big banks except in the most cursory terms. Wells Fargo did finally reply and told us they were doing great within a small footprint of countries. Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase were stone silent. Not surprisingly given …