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...ACORN exposed a property tax system which was overwhelmingly biased against low income property owners, and led a successful effort to reform the property tax system in order to increase the taxes of the wealthy and decrease the taxes of low income Arkansans...
...farmers who met in the school house decided that something had to be done about the power plant, and so they organized themselves as a chapter of the only group which has had any success in fighting for the rights of low and moderate income Arkansas, a group called ACORN (Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform...
...ACORN is a statewide organization of 4500 low and moderate income families, who are organized into over 38 local community groups from the Ozarks to the Delta. ACORN has been in existence for over three years, and during that time it has, according to one of its members, been "fighting to see to it that the state motto of Arkansas, 'The People Shall Rule,' rings true." Austin Scott of the Washington Post called ACORN "one of the most challenging organizing projects going right now," and went on to write about ACORN that "the name of its game is not welfare...
...problems that ACORN has done something about in the past three years include the following...
...ACORN's requests are undeniably reasonable. It asks that Harvard, as an institution with enormous research, educational and financial resources, and as a major power in the corporation which threatens the livelihoods of its members, study the situation carefully and make its voice heard. It asks that the University ensure that damages inflicted upon the farmers be compensated for by the utility without the massive red tape usually involved in these types of proceedings...