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Chanting "Ronald Reagan He's No Good. Send Him Back To Hollywood," almost a thousand people camped out along Dallas' Trinity River to protest the Republican's policies. The protests organized by ACORN--a national group of neighborhood groups in poor areas--were not the only shows in town: the protest veterans of the 60s, the Yippies, staged their pot smoke-ins; the punks did their "Rock Against Reagan" concert (chanting "Eat the Rich" and "Fuck Off and Die" when the Republican delegates came streaming out of the convention center nearby, battling to be heard over a loud school band...
...ACORN's Tent City was impressive; right by the major highway, Republican delegates coming in from the airport couldn't fail to notice the gospel tents, huge "Reagan-buster" signs, and people milling about from the ice-machines to the shade and back. The heat was so bad, that some of the older people from other parts of the country, not used to Texas heat, had medical problems. But there were not many of them, and the others who were well continued to chant; "We're Fired Up, We're Going to Dump the Chump...
...Acorn members ignored media attempts to sensationalize the Tent City by focusing on the handful of abrasive Yippies camping nearby. And they refused to be tempted to air-conditioned houses by the middle-class Yuppies who left the Tent City after experiencing a little discomfort. Calling themselves "Peacekeepers" because they held seminars on how to remain nonviolent and protect their bodies when attacked by the police, these well-to-do allies field suit to have the City immediately provide another campsite with shade trees and air conditioned first aid vehicles. Dallas' responsibility to protect First Amendment rights only extends...
Although the press was out in force for the Tent City, and most of them did capture ACORN's message that Reagan had his own version of a "War on Poverty", they were drawn largely to the more easily sensationalized small fringe groups also camping at Tent City. ACORN president Hanggi, who came from Arkansas with her husband and daughter, said that in talking to the media, "What I had to deal with was their perception of what a protest rally was." In the 60's and early 70's, she said, most of the anti-war rallies were white...
Months before the Tent City opened, ACORN had to fight with the city of Dallas, a racially segregated city with heaps of poverty in the minority and immigrant sections. The glitzy shiny tower facade of business and oil money was sparkling for the Republican delegates, while the 45 percent minority population was on the verge of calling an all out was on the rich whites who control the city...