Our Towns - Fighting the Good Fight, Amid Republican Barbs - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Sep 08
  

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  community organizing chicago politics acorn grassroots liberal conservative obama republican attacks presidential race nonprofit urban activism cities

  • office with its décor of newspaper clippings taped to walls, posters reading “Fair Housing. It’s not an Option. It’s the Law,” the Acorn newspaper with the front-page headline “Foreclosure Fighters,” and slightly unexpected bumper stickers reading: “God is Good All the Time.”
  • “There are different kinds of power,” said Bertha Lewis, executive director of New York Acorn. “There’s electoral power. Movie stars have fame. Billionaires have money. Low- and moderate-income people have their numbers, and every great movement for social justice — Nelson Mandela preaching against apartheid, civil rights — have all been led by community organizers who took action and held their elected officials accountable.”

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