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Mortgage Crisis? There's a Rental Crisis Too as the Poor, Middle Class and Elderly are Being Evicted

Ed Hamilton | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing, Acorn, Eviction, NYC Evictions, ACORN Home Defenders, Chelsea Hotel, Politics News

Recently, a 75-year old man was evicted from his apartment. His crime? Being in the way of the owners' desire to turn the Chelsea into a boutique tourist hotel charging $500 per night.

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One Home Saved As Hundreds Revolt Against Foreclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palm Beach County, Salkey, Acorn, Mortgage Crisis, Home Defenders, Financial Crisis, Yale Mortgage, ACORN Homesteaders, Housing Crisis, Avery Salkey, Home Foreclosure, Arthur Delaney, Politics News

Additional reporting by Jerry Waxman Avery Salkey bought her brand new four-bedroom home in Palm Beach County for $234,550 in 2003. After making a ...

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Time To Put Main Street Over Wall Street -- Obama's Foreclosure Proposal

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Mike Shea, Foreclosure Crisis, Acorn, President Obama, Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure, ACORN Home Defenders, Acorn Housing, Home Foreclosures, Housing Crisis, Politics News

Our foreclosure campaign will continue until the crisis has passed. We will continue to work to save individual families who are caught up in the mess through the ACORN Home Defenders.

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21st Century Bull Connor Closer to Feeling Fire Hose Turned on Him

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, John Conyers, Acorn, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Bobby Scott, Janet Napolitano, Jerrold Nadler, Joe Arpaio, Bertha Lewis, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Holder, Immigration Debate, Politics News

The Arpaio spectacle shows that a police-state solution does not work.

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Exclusive: The New Voter Fraud Complaint Filed in CT Against the GOP's Ann Coulter

Brad Friedman | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Voter Fraud, Acorn, Accountability, Ann Coulter, Connecticut, Politics News

An official state investigation is now underway into multiple voter fraud charges against Rightwing author and one-time attorney Ann Coulter in Connecticut.

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CEO Bailouts? How About the Homeowners?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure, Fighting for Our Homes, Acorn, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Corporate Handouts, Economic Crisis, Main Street, Politics News

We need your help. Have you been affected by the housing meltdown? Foreclosed on? Record your story, or the story of a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor, and send it to us.

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Refusing To Be Evicted -- Keeping Foreclosure Victims In Their Homes

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure, Foreclosure Crisis, Bertha Lewis, ACORN Home Defenders, Acorn, Economic Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Housing Crisis, Politics News

By showing that communities are refusing to participate in their own decimation, we will force elected officials to finally shift their emphasis from bailing out Wall Street to bailing out Main Street.

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From Little ACORNs Grow

ZP Heller | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure, Fox News, Stimulus, Acorn, Homesteading, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Foreclosure Prevention Act, Michelle Malkin, Politics News

ACORN is taking action at the local and national level, doing everything they can to help people hang onto their homes and renegotiate the terms of predatory loans.

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Don't Let Rush Limbaugh Write The Economic Recovery Package

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Economic Recovery Package, Economic Recovery, Bertha Lewis, Acorn, Food Stamps, Job Creation, Obama Economic Recovery Plan, Progressives, Politics News

It is absurd that people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are controlling the terms of debate for a package they will never support anyway.

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In the Week of Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Recovery, Davos, Congress, Obama, Acorn, World Social Forum, Business News

The sense of real world pain is not visible in the backrooms of Congress. As the financial crisis deepens, the locus of change will move from the suites to the streets.

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ACORN: The Bogeyman in the GOP Closet

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Foreclosure, Bertha Lewis, Economic Stimulus Package, Partisanship, Job Creation, Acorn, Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Crisis, Stimulus Package, Politics News

Right-wing media outlets are pick up the ridiculous talking points from the GOP leadership attacking Obama's stimulus package by claiming that it gives ACORN a $4.19 billion bailout. Puh-lease, people!

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Enough! Foreclosure Victims Speak Out

Tara L. Conley | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Acorn, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Economy, Economic Crisis, Brave New Films, Foreclosure, Obama Economy, Brave New Foundation, Tara L Conley, Politics News

Brave New Foundation provides an interactive platform so that people whose homes have been foreclosed on can tell their stories and be key players in the debate in Washington.

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Stop Foreclosures Now! ACORN's Anti-Foreclosure Campaign Escalates to Include Civil Disobedience

Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Economic Stimulus Package, Acorn, Housing Crisis, Politics News

Given the urgency of the crisis and the lack of attention paid to the families bearing the brunt of the economic meltdown, ACORN is taking its foreclosure campaign to a new level of militancy.

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Rejecting Cynicism this MLK Day

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. King, Acorn, www.mlkday.gov, Obama's Inauguration, Martin Luther King, Obama Inauguration, www.usaservice.org, National Day of Service, Houston Chronicle, Houston, USA Service, Barack Obama, MLK Day of Service, Living News

This MLK day, I will celebrate the efforts of Dr. King by participating in just one of the many thousands of MLK Day service projects planned across the country.

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ACORN Helps Lead Progressive Action to Pass A Stimulus Package

Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rallies, Jobs With Justice, Economic Stimulus Package, MoveOn.Org, Acorn, Economy, Seiu, People for the American Way, Sierra Club, Americans United for Change, US Action, Afscme, Politics News

Because of reality facing America's low- and moderate-income communities, ACORN members and their neighborhoods function as the canaries in our nation's economic coal mine.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty Pushes Back On Voter Fraud Allegations

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Alan Colmes, Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com, Acorn, Sean Hannity, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Minnesota Senate Race, Tim Pawlenty, Voter Fraud, Media News

[Via Newshounds] On last night's edition of Hannity and Colmes, the show's hosts took up the issue of the ongoing Minnesota Senate race, with Sean Han...

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Thanks From ACORN - Now Let's Move A Progressive Agenda!

Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn Voter Registration, Election Reaction, Acorn, Progressive Agenda, Acorn Attacks, Bertha Lewis, Election Results, Progressive Movement, Barack Obama, Politics News

If I could hug everyone at once, I would. Without everyone who stood with us it would have been impossible to fight back the way we did.

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ACORN Smears Setting the Stage for Possible Post-Election Lawsuits

Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Voter Suppression, Election Lawsuits, Voting, Voting Problems, Mccain Acorn, Politics News

With an historic Election Day tomorrow, the McCain-Palin campaign's ACORN-voter fraud endgame may be to use their attacks as a justification for a wave of legal challenges to close election results in key states.

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FOX Goes Nuts Over ACORN

ZP Heller | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Acorn, John McCain, Fox News, Bertha Lewis, Media, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Voting, Fox News Acorn, Media News

Desperate to exacerbate the GOP's recent attacks on ACORN, FOX is fueling the fire of misinformation about the nation's largest grassroots community organizing group.

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New Yorkers Count Too

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home

I was so close to not voting. I live in New York, it doesn't really matter anyway. But then the guilt built up inside of me. What would I say when my grandchildren asked about this historic election?

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ACORN's Plan To Turn Registrations Into Votes

Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn Voter Registration, No on Prop 200, We Are America Alliance, Ballot Initiative, Acorn, No on Amendent 46, Gotv, Voting, Politics News

We want to assure you that partisan attacks will not interfere with ACORN members' determination to involve low-income, minority, and new American voters across the country.

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"Daily Show" Investigates ACORN, Community Organizing (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Show Acorn, Video, Daily Show Community Organizing, Daily Show, Acorn, The Daily Show, Community Organizing, Daily Show Community Organizers, Daily Show Community Organizer, Politics News

John Oliver of "The Daily Show" talked to ACORN's Bertha Lewis about the evils of "community organizing." He also spoke with Liz Shaw, a conservative ...

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100 Million Suspects

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy Is Messy, Acorn, John McCain, Locke, Donald Rumsfeld, Sousveillance, Democracy, Election Protection Wiki, Voting Problems, Hobbes, Barack Obama, Politics News

In the end, the decision couldn't be clearer. This election is a referendum on trusting the electorate. It's a referendum on democracy itself.

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Obama Could Lose Election Due To Voter Suppression

Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections, Law, Democrat, Youth Vote, Swift Boat, Obama, Democratic Party, Voter Suppression, Voting Problems, Voter Su, Colorado, Acorn Voter Fraud, Hava, Voter Registration, Voters, Election 2008, Voter Fraud, Republican Party, Voting, Denver, Republican Presidential Candidate, Acorn Voter Registration, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, Acorn, Women Voters, Indiana, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Democracy, Democrats, Acorn Scandal, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Swiftboating, Early Voting, Republican, New York Times, Breaking Politics News, Voter ID Laws, Republicans, West Virginia, Paper Ballots, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee, Home News

Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.

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New President, New CRA

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Community Reinvestment, Community Reinvestment Act, Subprime Crisis, Phil Gramm, Wall Street Crash, Fdic, Bank Reform, Acorn, Obama Administration, Credit Crisis, Bank Loans, Barack Obama, Cra Reform, Cra, Subprime Mortgages, McCain Campaign, Financial Crisis, Business News

This nation doesn't need a weaker CRA, but a re-conceived and far stronger tool in the effort to ensure ready access to quality, non-discriminatory, financial services in all communities.

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