Robert Greenwald's juggernaut viral-film production company, Brave New Films, has responded to the recent barrage of attacks against the community organization ACORN with a new film explaining the group's larger mission, the steps it has taken to register more than 1 million new voters this year, its internal safeguards against voter registration fraud, and what it considers to be a coordinated effort by Republicans to suppress the vote of young, minority and other underrepresented voters in next month's election.
The video is viewable below and also is available for free download and distribution here. According to a press release issued Tuesday morning, ACORN also is holding film-viewing house parties in 17 cities around the country later Tuesday, including Washington DC, Boston, Springfield MA, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Hartford, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Bridgeport, Detroit, Flint, Twin Cities and Charlotte.
ACORN has taken a public-relations beating for more than a month by conservatives ranging from an advocate for predatory lenders (testifying as a "vote fraud" expert at a Congressional hearing) and Fox News to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Emerging reports suggest the U.S. Attorney's Office and F.B.I. are also unfairly targeting the organization. But ACORN is beginning to return fire, making efforts to explain its mission, the full scope of its community activism work, and its quality-control measures .
ACORN considers educational efforts, like Greenwald's film, to be especially important in light of the vandalism and threats it has experienced since the GOP negative publicity heated up last month.
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And even more than just mainstream media, how can the word be gotten out to people in those states and counties and individuals who would be most affected by stolen, spoiled, disenfranchised votes?
I'd hate for so much excellent labor to have been in vain. (Obama's going to win; but just the thought of even ONE vote stolen, sickens me!)
Okay, I'll be specific -- what can *I* do to help?
The whole original sin/purpose of the purging of the U. S. Attorneys was because they were NOT investigating frivolous claims against Democrats regarding these matters. Now they are at it again. This ACORN faux scandal is a cover to distract from their REAL suppression efforts, especially in New Mexico. The ACORN people SELF-REPORTED registration errors. Those entries were never going to pass muster in order to be able to vote, since they were largely fictional or non-existant to begin with.
Another typical GOP maneuver, accuse your opponents of the things you are most guilty of.