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...This contract was really stark. The images portrayed of Republican and of our ACORN members curry over to real lives. The Republicans live high off the hog and we have to grovel in the dirt and scrape by ACORN people are the spirit of America--we are the wind blowing through the flaps of the flags and tents...
ELENA HANGGI, president of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is describing the protests--and the protestors--her organization led at last month's Republican convention in Dallas. Almost for gotten in a month's worth of Mondale glitches and media forums about Reagan and religion, and soon likely to be forgotten altogether, the protests were expressive of much that is right and wrong with...
...lacks San Francisco's flare for protest, Dallas nonetheless will inspire its share of political sideshows. Activities are planned by gays, nuclear-freeze activists, union members and Moral Majority missionaries. The most elaborate demonstrations will begin the Saturday before the convention, when a consortium of organizations led by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) kicks off a three-day Alliance for Justice in 1984 program. Organizers expect 2,000 visiting protesters to bunk at a tent city along the banks of the Trinity River. They and like-minded Dallasites plan a door-to-door voter-registration effort...
...Democrats have not responded to Reagan with as much vehemence as many on the left would like, largely because of the skill with which the party has isolated itself from the mass of low- and moderate-income citizens. ACORN, a national organization of the poor, protested at the 1980 Democratic National Convention for a quota of one-third of delegates to be low- and moderate-income, similar to the 50 per cent quota for women. A commission headed by Black activist and Congressman Michey Leland recommended the idea to the Democratic National Committee, which rejected it in favor of another...
...started when the Pfluegers' water supply turned an unsavory purple, and later black. John found that woodpeckers had drilled holes in the water tank's wooden top and dropped in acorn after acorn. After he drained the tank and shoveled out their stash, about 100 Ibs. of acorns, scores of angry birds began slamming against the windows. "The birds did not seem afraid of anything," said Donna. "I'd scare them away but it didn't work." Not long thereafter, a meter reader noticed that the living-room window was smashed and called the police. Guns...