Right Wingers Continue to Play “I Spy” to Terrorize Citizen Action

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Little Rock   These days it’s pretty clear that if you are going to run an activist nonprofit that might make waves someday and therefore unsettle conservative sailors on their good ship “Lollypop,” you simply have to increase the paranoia training for staff and leaders alike.  The sting and scam model that the scurrilous and unprincipled James …

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Targeting Employment Agency Scam

Organizing

Montreal It was exciting to meet with the organizers and volunteers of the Immigrant Workers Center in Montreal and hear about their developing campaigns to finally bring aggressive statutory and regulatory reform to temporary employment agency scams and the companies that use them. The IWC has identified a number of gaps in the Quebec provincial …

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Giles Fundraising Scam

ACORN Personal Writings

New Orleans Hannah Giles, the “ho” in the ACORN video stings last fall is reportedly sending out direct mail fundraising appeals asking for $35 to $5000 to defend her against the so-called ACORN lawsuits against she and the discredited James O’Keefe, the pimp in that series.  I wonder if this is a scam? She and …

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