ourfuture.org discusses the fall of the community group ACORN with John Atlas, the founder of the New Jersey-based National Housing Institute. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now closed its doors officially on April 1, 2010, having succumbed to a long onslaught of right-wing attacks that culminated with a video of conservative provocateur James O’Keefe impersonating a pimp seeking advice from ACORN workers on how to skirt the law. The subsequent torrent of negative media coverage led to a vote in Congress to cut its federal funding and caused private supporters to back away.
March 23, 2010 (3:02) Community organizing group ACORN says it will shut down on April 1st. But was ACORN the victim of right-wing attacks?
As President Obama signed the financial regulation bill, the remnants of Missouri ACORN, reconstituted as MORE, assault a Chase Bank sales branch in St Louis. The timing was precise — planned to bring further pressure and media attention on the banks just as massive federal regulations, many not yet written, are signed into law. Local reporters from KMOX were tipped off to the protest, ostensibly about renegotiating a mortgage, as was local television affiliate KSDK.
Now that the community organizing group ACORN has declared that it is disbanding, many observers say the media should bear the blame for publicizing the phony tapes that started the group’s downfall. Blogger Brad Friedman says that while the New York TImes has admitted some errors in its reporting, that doesn’t go far enough.
ACORN is closing down after 40 years helping the underprivileged.
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In a move ignored by the media, OMB director Peter Orszag circulated a directive to federal agencies ordering them to begin funding ACORN again. ACORN is the hyperpartisan lead group in the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition …
Being a Democrat depending on Republicans to vote him in. By Country First Always, March 30, 2010 @ 12:13 am
In a move ignored by the media, OMB director Peter Orszag circulated a directive to federal agencies ordering them to begin funding ACORN again. ACORN is the hyperpartisan lead group in the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition …
In a move ignored by the media, OMB director Peter Orszag circulated a directive to federal agencies ordering them to begin funding ACORN again. ACORN is the hyperpartisan lead group in the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition …