Vancouver It’s that time of the cycle. Reporters are riding from paper to television shouting the warnings: the elections are coming! the elections are coming! the elections are coming! Time to hide the small children it seems. And, of course do everything possible to suppress the participation of lower income voters. At the ACORN Canada board meeting, head organizer Judy …
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A Joint Study with Ottawa ACORN Asks Important Questions about Voting and Polling Places
New Orleans Community Life Services, a community service wing of the University of Ottawa, worked with ACORN Canada in Ottawa on a fascinating project that is now starting to take shape and produce some interesting conclusions – and questions – about the ways that the placement of voting stations may curiously and adversely impact the …
Emancipation, Django, Slavery, and Lincoln
New Orleans To celebrate New Year’s Eve, we went to see Quinton Tarantino’s Django and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I understand this is controversial and that deadly serious topics are supposed to be dealt with solemnly without humor, but to the degree that Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln was all about him and the politics of emancipation, Django …