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Tamiment-Wagner: Other Left Activism

Collected by: New York University

Archived since: Oct, 2015

Description:

Contains periodically archived websites (pending subdivision into individual topical projects) of primarily U.S. entities engaged in a variety of causes and issues, including civil rights (including internet-related issues), human rights, progressive electoral politics, the anti-globalization, environmental, feminist and peace movements, struggles for social and economic justice, including those working on behalf of immigrants, prisoners, women, the LGBT community, and other groups and issues. For technical, privacy and other reasons, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl.

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Title: ACORN

URL: http://www.acorn.org/

Description: The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), formed in 1970, was a collection of community-based organizations in the United States that advocated for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues. In 2010, ACORN filed Chapter 7 liquidation and closed the organization. The organization consisted of 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country.organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members, through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter participation. ACORN helps those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system.

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Subject:   ACORN (Organization) ,  Community organization--United States.

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