‘The People United Will Never be Defeated’: Inside ACORN’s Community Organizing Model
by Anita MonCriefAs ACORN pretends to “dissolve” around the country, internally, there appears to be a mad dash to get out ahead of prosecution. Not surprisingly, ACORN has a history of shutting offices down when an investigation gets too close. For example, in 2004 ACORN’s affiliate Project Vote abruptly closed its national office in Ohio and shipped boxes stuffed with un-cashed checks and paperwork to Washington, DC.
ACORN appears to have honed these tricks and has now decided to re-brand on a national scale. However, given its history, many are skeptical:
“If you want to see whether ACORN is really changing its ways, check to see whether the signatories to those local ACORN bank accounts are changing. When it comes to ACORN, the money is the organization, and the name is just the name.”
In order to operate effectively, ACORN requires little public scrutiny and a lot of lore and misdirection (think registering Mickey Mouse to vote). For 40 years ACORN’s organizing model has survived social revolutions and political upheavals and to understand ACORN a review of the 1970’s “manifesto” of ACORN founder Wade Rathke is essential.
Keeping up with the little nuts that have fallen off Rathke’s tree has begun and one has to wonder how long before another mighty “oak” is formed.
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Once that cat is out of the bag, the chances of getting back in are slim to none…
We will be watching. There efforts cannot be disguised as well as they may like to think.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…
It can be rather disconcerting at times. There appear to be a whole lot more of them, than there are of US, and they certainly are determined…………
ACORN is a virus, a dangerous virus capable of mutating.
The battle will continue
The cockroach is equally difficult to deal with…until you burn the place down.
Everything is relevant:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&a...
Just when I think I've seen and heard it all, I am astounded and can only shake my head and mutter "W T F"!
Are we discussing congress ?
Or acorn?
I know, I just posted the same news in the wrong thread. Andy Stern!! Can you imagine him counselling Obama on the deficit? WTF is a huge understatement. It's like having a known pedofile running daycare.
why don't conservatives take that blueprint and run with it w/ their own message, values, and objectives???
Take your pick.
Isn't that insane? Andy Freaking Stern? I am aghast? Is Obama really that stupid? Andy Stern is worse than Van Jones? I am wondering if Obama is loosing it, cracking up under the stress. Doesn't he realize that by the time Breitbart, Rush, Hannity, Colter, Savage and everyone else gets done running Stern through the meat grinder, there won't be nothing left of Stern but stewmeat sized chunks?
It does amaze how these people think we are so stupid.
Who if they say some new community type store front set up wouldn't pop the name into a search engine and check it out?
I look forward to the many indictments that will be issued in 2013, until then they have too much political cover.
Keeping the pressure on will be tough, but it's doable.
or the education Czar.
Duh?
I think I just answered my own question.
Here's a hypothetical. Do you think Obama is smarter than we realize? By appointing Stern and elevating him to a political profile, that just might be Obamas way of throwing Stern under the bus………
Sounds like an Aflac commercial……..
Yeah me too.
He can't run day care, he is in charge of public schools..
Why are communities so disorganized anyway?
We are so screwed. Obama, Holder, Stern and all the progressives will bury us. Nikita Kruschev wins.
I'll write their report right now: Raise Taxes on the Rich.
Evasion and Deception – the Modus Operandi of the Lying Socialist Left…
…smoke 'em out, BigWorld, smoke 'em out…
…a Grateful Nation Thanks You !
I suffered through and read that manifesto, I am enlightened by the statement – "there is nothing wrong with ridiculing your opposition…." Seems they have that done to a science! I honestly do not believe there are more of them than US, they are just louder! Squeaky wheel right?!
Sad that this is what the battle is about when in fact, it's so repugnant in and of itself I can't fathom how they have survived – oh yea, cockroachs – they survive anything.
We can only hope
And no, I don't think he is smarter than we realize, I fear he is more morally bankrupt than we realized ~
OOOPSIE DOODLE. Meant this to be posted under Cowboy's comment above re Stern on the Deficit Panel.
Guess I'd rather have Howard Stern instead of Andy Stern.
He knows EXACTLY what he's doing,that's why he's the fifth column.
Like a Snake, you don't have to kill it just keep an eye on it and keep a safe distance (or in ACORN's case keep your hand on your wallet) and it is neutralized. Watch who get's ACORN/SEIU support in Nov. and vote the other way! If you take the time to read their manefesto (Great word fo it) you will see right through their tactics.
Cowboy…I think that WE have more stamina, and morals on our side! WE can wipe them out…it might take a while, but it can be done!
Well, at least we tend to get up earlier in the morning.
Nah…he won't be throwing Stern under the bus…it's US that are going to be thrown under and run over!!!
Again: WTF
The Progressive movement is much bigger than most people think! If, "we the people" do not go after them full force, they're going to win in November! I've said a number of times, they control the House, Senate, Judiciary, and the Press/Media! There needs to be a gigantic win in November '10 to have a chance to beat them and then; it's only the beginning of the fight! They'll really get "mean" then!
No! We're losing it! We elected this Marxist turd and he didn't hide it from anyone, either! You asked for it, you got it!
I think that obumblo could see that he maybe couldn't get a payback for stern through the healthcare bill so he decided to just give him a job instead!!!! He got to pay him back somehow!!!
The ACORN, the loopy lefties and their Marx stream media pals have been dragged into the sunlight and like scurrying cockroaches, they are scattering for the shadows…
Keep an eye out for the "new entities" as they will no doubt be sucking even more money from the American taxpayers now that they have broken into hundreds of small terror cells.
The trick now will be ferreting out the newly created terrorist cells and following the money directly to the rats in control of them.
I'm hoping we can get some of our people on the inside as staff members and see where it goes…
Speaking of ACORN and their proclivity toward violence…
Feb 26, 1:42 PM EST
Late-night protest at UC Berkeley turns violent
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Police say two people are under arrest after a late-night demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley turned violent.
UC Berkeley officials say some people protesting budget cuts and increased student fees broke into a campus building, torched trash cans and smashed at least one store's windows.
The unrest began around 11 p.m. Thursday after a crowd of about 200 gathered for an open-air dance party on campus.
Officials say about a dozen people broke into Durant Hall and strung up a banner promoting an upcoming Sacramento rally over the budget cuts, then the crowd began marching off campus. Police say protesters flung bottles and rocks at officers, who were trying to quell the chaos.
Berkeley police say two people were arrested for battery. No serious injuries were reported.
Speaking of ACORN and their proclivity toward violence…
Feb 26, 1:42 PM EST
Late-night protest at UC Berkeley turns violent
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Police say two people are under arrest after a late-night demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley turned violent.
UC Berkeley officials say some people protesting budget cuts and increased student fees broke into a campus building, torched trash cans and smashed at least one store's windows.
The unrest began around 11 p.m. Thursday after a crowd of about 200 gathered for an open-air dance party on campus.
Officials say about a dozen people broke into Durant Hall and strung up a banner promoting an upcoming Sacramento rally over the budget cuts, then the crowd began marching off campus. Police say protesters flung bottles and rocks at officers, who were trying to quell the chaos.
Berkeley police say two people were arrested for battery. No serious injuries were reported.
Yet the TEA Parties get accused of "acting violent"..??
Mr. Rathke and his ilk better have some mighty fine body armor… .trust me, that day is rapidly approaching in this country…………
Same thing.
They are.
Nuts.
I agree with you. Obama owes so many people that got him fraudulently elected, this is strictly payback or else Stern will blow the whistle on him.
The cockroaches will have all retired ( like pelosi) and probably on some island by then with all our money they stole.
This HAS to go viral !!
Yeah, that's really a great way to make their point.
I'm almost sure I saw a Tea Party protester fling a cigarette butt !
Maybe he was tired of getting bullied by him, when "The One" is supposed to have all the power.
“If you want to see whether ACORN is really changing its ways, check to see whether the signatories to those local ACORN bank accounts are changing…"
To keep an eye on them, follow the money. Then follow the droppings.
dragged behind the stern.
We need a Who's Who of the ACORN nuts to keep track.
Don't get discouraged. We surround THEM. We don't get the airtime or the press, but people like me have joined organizations which are using many of Alinsky's and ACORN's tactics against the Progressives, to very good effect! Americans are getting turned off in droves to the Progressives, and we must keep pressure on.
Please, get involved locally if you are not already. Candidates need volunteers to make calls and do the foot-soldiering of campaigning. The best way to see that you are not alone and outnumbered is to get out there and join a fight.
Listen to those liberal mafiosi. They'll screw up–criminal organizations always do.
Yeah, they'll be defeated alright–right along with the devil. Nothing more than another web of henchmen in the long spider-like network of this mafiosi administration.
I don't know about that victor b; he didn't win by a landslide and a percentage of the citizenry refused to vote at all because they thought him so dirty.
I have a feeling that they're not nearly as big as people think–they just puff themselves up with their tantrums to appear so. Liberals are masters of smoke and mirrors because, of course, they have little to no substance (as this election has surely proven).
Are they mean, yes; are they big, I'm not convinced.
One more virus in the disease pool of the liberal left, indeed. I cannot fathom how people can tolerate this Obama who, without fail, appoints criminals to his cabinet and has yet to be affiliated with an organization that ISN'T questionable.
I cringe every time he opens his mouth or makes a decision–and at the thought that he's privy to our national secrets. God help us. Please.
"…run with their own message, values and objectives…"
Are you trying to say something here? Like that liberals have 'values?' Oh, they've got a 'message' and 'objectives' alright–we can smell all of them from miles away. But 'values?' No, you threw in that word as a filler.
Don't do that here. You'll only embarrass yourself.
ACORN will morph into OBAMA'S CIVILIAN MILITARY, with kudos, no doubt, from the usual MSM suspects.
It'll have many perks: Conscripts will be able to attack WHITEY in any way they see fit. Conscripts will
be "covered" by AG Holder for anything they do. Conscripts are required, by law, to attack ANY inequity
that they see fit, short of waterboarding………but justfiable homocide is justified whenever the BLACK
COUNCIL OF JUSTICE is named by Obama in the coming months. Hope, no…Change, fo' shizzle.
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[...] Perhaps McCray did not check with other ACORN 8 people as to the access I had. And unfortunately for the ACORN 8 few of his outlandish accusations would pass muster at a middle school newspaper. Using tactics honed through years of ACORN campaigns and organizing strategies, the ACORN 8 exhibit exactly the type of mentality that founder Wade Rathke encouraged in his ACORN Community Organizing Manual. [...]
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