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Beth Butler Fired By ACORN; Director Of Louisiana ACORN Is Companion Of Founder Wade Rathke

The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Jerry Chautin

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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ACORN Subpoenaed By America's Toughest Sheriff: Federal Funds Allegedly Used For Political Attacks

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Dawn Teo

Arpaio told local reporters Thursday evening, "I have a sneaking suspicion that ACORN is using federal taxpayer dollars to pursue their own agenda because they don't like me."

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Stephen Colbert in Death Match with Black Barbie

Bertha Lewis | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

A few weeks ago, Stephen Colbert had me on his show. It got to the point where I took out a black Barbie doll, he took out a transformer and we just started dueling. Guess who won that fight?

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Sick and Tired's Turn to Stand and Fight

Bertha Lewis | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

The sick and tired are going to halls of the well-insured and well-cared-for and telling them that now is the time to reform our health care system and provide quality, affordable health care to all Americans.

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Stopping the 13 Second Clock: ACORN and Leading Mayors Join Together in Fighting Foreclosures

Bertha Lewis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.

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"Lupus Isn't the Only Thing Eating Me Up About Health Care"

Bertha Lewis | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

If there were an adequate public health care plan, there's a good chance that Tamecka Pierce could manage her lupus without having to make the kinds of choices she's had to make to date.

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Stopping the Every-13-Second Foreclosure Clock

Bertha Lewis | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

In America, a family is losing its home every 13 seconds.

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McCain's Hometown Sheriff Ditches McCain For The Colbert Report

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

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Dawn Teo

Sheriff Joe, who is famous for his reality show, tent-based jails, and large contingent of immigration enforcement officers, says he never intended to appear before McCain and other senators at Monday's hearing.

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Al Sharpton and ACORN Call For Arizona Sheriff To Resign, Or Else

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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Dawn Teo

rpaio seemed not to know Al Sharpton, saying, "What is his name? Sharpton? He wants me to resign? Have I got news for him. He can stick that in his pipe and smoke it."

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21st Century Bull Connor: Shameless Intransigence

Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

Thousands of immigrant families are living in terror under Sheriff Arpaio's reign. We can't let his racist policing continue.

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Thank You Jon Stewart

Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

Jon's looking out for us, so let's have his back while he's under attack from those who would rather blame the crisis on hard working Americans.

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The Future Starts Now: President Obama's First Budget

Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

After years of shrinking commitments, the Obama budget increases our investment in programs that fundamentally improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income families.

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

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

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

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Bertha Lewis

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

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

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

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

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ZP Heller

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

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Bertha Lewis

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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ACORN: The Bogeyman in the GOP Closet

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

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

Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

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

Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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Bertha Lewis

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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FOX Goes Nuts Over ACORN

ZP Heller | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

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ZP Heller

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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Keep It On the D.L.

Danny Groner | Posted 12.03.2008 | Media

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Danny Groner

Hughley is quickly growing into his own.

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