September 2009

Your Daily Flashback of Real ACORN News

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Three Thousand March Through Downtown Chicago for Immigrant Rights
Jun. 30, 2002

Hazardous heat conditions threatened Chicago as 3,000 members of ACORN and their allies, including SEIU Local 880, marched through city streets to demand rights for immigrants and a living wage for home care workers on July 1. The protest march concluded ACORN’s national convention, which is held every two years in a different city.

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GE's NBC's Law and Order Does Torture Prosecution

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“Law and Order” this evening ran an episode in which a John Yoo-like torture lawyer is prosecuted for his crimes. The show takes up only the few minutes in between all the commercials, but it nails the basic points well. A local prosecutor finds the nerve and the jurisdiction to act. In reality, this has not happened, of course. But it could, quite easily, for torture, for spying, and for much worse. Even in the realm of fictional prosecutors, no show has yet taken up the Vince read more

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How ACORN Used to Show Up in the News

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The Fight for Higher Minimum Wage
CNN Financial: CNN Money Morning
April 3, 2002
Guest: David Swanson
Host: David Haffenreffer

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNNfn ANCHOR, MONEY MORNING: Most Americans would agree that the national minimum wage of $5.15 an hour isn’t really a living wage. But more individual cities and counties are joining a living wage movement. And joining us now with more on all this is David Swanson . He is with an advocacy group for lower income Americans known as ACORN. Welcome read more

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FireDogLake Book Salon: Swanson With Greenwald

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On Sunday, September 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. ET, Glenn Greenwald will introduce and moderate an online discussion with David Swanson about his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."

Please go to FireDogLake ahead of time and make sure you have a username and password so that you can ask questions: http://firedoglake.com

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How ACORN Took Over the IL Republican Party

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While 50 ACORN members were in the Illinois Republican Party headquarters, the phone rang, and an ACORN member answered it “ACORN, Can I help you?”

On the other end, they said, “What, ACORN? Wait a minute, this is the Republican Party in D.C. calling the Republican Party in Illinois.”

The ACORN member said, “ACORN has taken over the Republican Party in Illinois. Can I help you?”

The response: “Oh my God.”

The winter of 2003 was a cold one and my third read more

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Teachable Moments: Bush Back in Texas

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By Leslie Harris, After Downing Street

The recent uproar over the blatant hypocrisy of the Arlington (TX) School District’s decision not to show President Obama’s address to school children (which would have cost the district nothing), while at the same time preparing to bus (at taxpayers’ expense) about 500 students to the gargantuan, shiny new Texas Stadium to hear former President George W. Bush speak, was mitigated when the district’s embattled superintendent apologized read more

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The ACORN I Know

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By David Swanson

If someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much of their equity or of their entire homes, you might not be surprised. But if I told you that these women and men had gotten together and, after three years of work, brought the nation’s largest high-cost lender to its knees, forced it to sell out to a foreign read more

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The Conyers-Bybee Love Affair

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By David Swanson

There is strong evidence that John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, and most of the rest of us are in love with torture-lawyer Jay Bybee. I’m not talking about sexual love and wouldn’t, because people’s lives are lost to such bread-and-circuses journalism every day. I’m talking deep personal devotion.

Let’s examine the evidence.

1. As head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Jay Bybee committed felonies in exchange for being nominated to a life-time seat on the read more

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