ACORN 2006 Annual Report

ABOUT ACORN
ACORN the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is the nations largest community organization of low and moderate income families, with more than 350,000 families organized into neighborhood chapters in over 110 cities around the country and internationally. Since 1970, ACORN has been taking action and winning victories on issues of concern to our members. Our priorities include living wages and better benefits for low-income workers, affordable housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, increased utilization of the EITC and other tax credits, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools.
ACORNS ORGANIZING PHILOSOPHY

For 36 years, the neighborhood organizing drive has been the core of ACORNs work. During these drives, ACORN organizers visit low and moderate income neighborhoods, having one-on-one conversations with hundreds of residents in their homes. In 2006, ACORN conducted 492 organizing drives in communities across the country. Organizers ask community members what issues they are concerned about, and what their hopes and dreams are for their family, for their community, for their city, and for their country. Each organizing drive culminates in a neighborhood-wide meeting, where members elect their own officers, take stock of their emerging power, and choose a set of issues to work on. Within days the new ACORN chapter moves into action, tackling a range of community issues while helping members see themselves as political actors with the power to get things done. New leaders emerge as members develop their skills and discover their strengths. As chapters continue meeting monthly, they develop a broader agenda that speaks to the more fundamental concerns of members, including education, jobs, and housing. But the basic principle remains the same: ACORN members those who are directly affected by the issue at stake are the ones who take action on their own behalf to win the victories that make a difference in their lives.
MESSAGE FROM ACORNS NATIONAL PRESIDENT
006 was a monumental year for ACORN. At the close of 2006, ACORN is organizing in
more than 110 cities and 40 states across the U.S. and the District of Columbia, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. We also grew to more than 350,000 ACORN members in the U.S. and internationally! Our major campaign this year raising the minimum wage by ballot initiative in four states led to raises for 1.5 million workers. ACORN also ran the nations largest nonpartisan voter registration effort this election cycle, kept up the fight for justice for Katrina survivors as they return and rebuild New Orleans, and organized on many more issues affecting low-income families. These campaigns were widely covered by the national press, including front-page articles in the New York Times Magazine and Washington Post. I invite you to read the following highlights of ACORNs organizing and I look forward to sharing even more exciting work in the year ahead. In solidarity,
ACORN is organizing in more than 110 cities and 40 states across the U.S. and the District of Columbia, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru.
Maude Hurd
ACORN President
ACORN 2006 Annual Report
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RAISING WAGES FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Minimum Wage Ballot Initiatives Deliver Raises in Four States
On November 7, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio overwhelmingly approved ACORN-backed ballot initiatives to raise their states minimum wage by $1.35 or more with indexing to inflation. The wage increases will deliver raises to 1.5 million workers! To pass the measures, over 1,600 ACORN members, canvassers, and volunteers worked with labor-faith-community coalitions to contact 380,000 voters in low-income neighborhoods. ACORN led the field effort that gathered 1.28 million signatures to qualify the four initiatives for the ballot.
ACORNs Minimum Wage

LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES
MD, 44,000 workers, $6.15 AR, 127,000 workers, $6.25 NC, 300,000 workers, $6.15 CA, 1.4 million workers, $8.00 by 2008
Lawmakers Pass ACORN-backed Minimum Wage Bills

ACORN played a leading role in legislative campaigns that raised the minimum wage in eight states (Maryland, Michigan, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Massachusetts, California and Illinois) and Albuquerque, N.M. The City of Albuquerque was only the fourth city in the country to enact a minimum wage law. In Michigan and Arkansas, state legislators approved minimum wage increases after ACORN and allies collected thousands of signatures and built broad community support for minimum wage ballot measures. These legislative campaigns resulted in raises for over 3.5 million workers.
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Campaigns Raise Wages for Over 5 Million Workers

MI, 500,000 workers, $7.40 by 2008 PA, 754,000 workers, $7.15 by 2007 MA, 315,000 workers, $8.00 by 2008 IL, 647,000 workers, $8.25 by 2010
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On the Web: Life at the Minimum Wage
ACORN, the AFL-CIO, and actor and comedienne Roseanne Barr teamed up for a groundbreaking video blog event in 7 Days @ Minimum Wage, which used YouTube and blogging to give America the chance to meet Paul and Susan--Paul is a conJessica--Single mother of four and struction laborer, while Susan was sericlerical worker: Ive worked basically at seven minimum ously injured in a car accident and cant minimum wage my whole entire life. I try wage workers work. Paul explains: [The work] to make my children strong. I dont tell varies from picking up trash to them that the reason why mommys not Jeffrey--Single father and and get a glimpse digging a trench, using a pick food service worker: Sometimes eating tonight is because Id rather for into what life on a and shovel. By the end of the you to eat than me. I wonder where my next meal is day, Im looking at like $35, and going to come from. I do what I minimum wage is I pretty much broke my back. have to do to make a living for me and my really like. family.
City after city has said we cant let people who work hard every day taking care of our children, taking care of our parents, cleaning up after us, serving us our food, [and] making the products we need live in poverty when theyre working full time. This is a matter of justice I want to thank SEIU and ACORN, who have led the fight. --Sen. Hillary Clinton
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Ohio ACORN Campaign at Forefront of Living Wage Victories
Ohio ACORN member Julie Smith emerged as a strong and articulate national leader in the minimum wage campaigns, appearing at local, state, and national rallies with elected officials and on radio and television programs including the CBS Evening News.
ACORN LEADER IN ACTION
De Phillips Denver, CO I
n June 2006 when her neighborhood ACORN chapter tried to stop her local dollar store from selling crack pipes, De Phillips got involved. She and other ACORN members from her chapter met with the stores owners and local police officials, and eventually convinced the stores owners to sign and honor an agreement to stop selling the pipes. At ACORNs July 2006 National Convention, the workshops Ms. Phillips attended inspired her to fight for Colorados campaign to raise the minimum wage. The issue hits close to home, says Ms. Phillips, who worked for the minimum wage at a clothing store before becoming a graphic designer. Its hard when you have children, and you cant pay all the bills, and then they start shutting off your electricity, she explains. Ms. Phillips wanted Colorado to give low-wage workers a raise. At the convention Ms. Phillips also discovered her talent
for public speaking. During a rollcall portion of the program, the speaker for Colorado could not be found. Though Ms. Phillips had never spoken in public before, she stepped up to the microphone and felt a surge of energy when facing the crowd. I was on fire, she says. I came away from the event wanting to be a motivational speaker. After Colorado ACORN gathered 130,000 signatures to put the wage measure on the ballot, Ms. Phillips got another chance to try out her public speaking skills. She went to the state capitol to present lawmakers with the signatures. This puts real money into the pockets of hardworking individuals, she told the crowd of ACORN members and other supporters. When the initiative was approved by Colorado voters, Ms. Phillips was energized. At ACORN we get together and do it, she says. We dont just talk. We do it.
At ACORN we get together and do it. We dont just talk. We do it.
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Living Wage Campaigns Across the Country
ACORN and allies ran successful campaigns to win fair wages and benefits for low wage workers as part of the national living wage movement. In Pine Bluff, Ark., Washington, D.C., and Nassau County, N.Y., ACORN-backed coalitions won measures providing living wages for thousands of workers. Chicago ACORN helped pass a landmark ordinance requiring big box stores in the city to pay $13 per hour in wages and fringe benefits, though the measure was vetoed by Mayor Richard Daley.
Chicago Takes on Big Box Retailers
hicago ACORN and its allies won a landmark victory in July when, by a margin of 35-14, the City Council approved the first ordinance in the country requiring large city retailers to pay their employees living wages. Although Mayor Richard Daley vetoed the law, the campaign received extensive press coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek and in other major publications bringing national attention to the living wage movement. When you work for the people doing Gods work fighting to give working families a fair chance to succeed youre going to win, said ACORN community leader Toni Foulkes. When Wal-Mart planned to open a store in the predominately black West Side neighborhood, ACORN members organized to demand the company pay fair wages and benefits. With the help of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, ACORN drafted the big box living wage ordinance, which required large retail companies in the city like Wal-Mart, Target, and Home Depot to pay employees at least $13 per hour in wages and fringe benefits by 2010. People are barely scraping by on low wages, said Chicago ACORN president Beatrice Jackson. Employers are getting an honest days work, they should pay an honest days wage. They need to pay a living wage. ACORN members garnered support for the ordinance by knocking on 25,000 doors, holding rallies and vigils, meeting with dozens of city aldermen and building a coalition of allies including SEIU Local 880, the Grassroots Collaborative, UFCW Local 881, the Chicagoland Federation of Labor, SEIU Illinois Council, and many of Chicagos clergy. Were not through yet, Ms. Jackson said. It was just the start.
People are barely scraping by on low wages. Employers are getting an honest days work, they should pay an honest days wage. They need to pay a living wage.
--Beatrice Jackson. Chicago ACORN president
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Judy Link Mesa, AZ U

ntil an ACORN organizer knocked on her door two years ago, 58-year-old Judy Link had never considered becoming an activist. I felt pretty helpless about changing things, she says, but then no one had ever come to my door like ACORN did, with so much enthusiasm. Judy hated the proliferation of payday loan businesses in her neighborhood, so she helped her local ACORN chapter plan a rally at an intersection which had payday outlets on all four corners. I said we should call these places loan sharks and next thing I know Im on that corner with ACORN, and Im wearing a giant shark costume. When ACORN began fighting for the minimum wage increase in 2005, Judy did whatever was needed. She overcame a terrible fear of public speaking to hold press conferences. She published letters to editors
and phoned voters to assure them that Arizona could support a wage increase benefiting thousands of workers. If a voter told me that higher wages would send jobs overseas, I told them most minimum-wage workers are service workers. Id say, We cant send our hotel beds overseas, Judy explains. Judys hard work paid off on election night when a speaker at campaign headquarters announced Proposition 202s win. To celebrate, Judy and a group of 40 ACORN members walked into headquarters chanting slogans, and were met with thunderous applause. In the coming year, Judy wants to continue honing her new activist skills with ACORN. I love the organizers, she says. Theyre energetic and passionateyou cant help but get excited about anything were planning.
I felt pretty helpless about changing things, but then no one had ever come to my door like ACORN did.
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RAISING OUR STATES
2006 ACORN NATIONAL CONVENTION
ore than 2,500 ACORN members gathered on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for ACORNs 16th National Convention on July 8 to 10. The convention, the largest in our history, brought ACORN members together with national leaders like Senator Hillary Clinton and former Senator John Edwards to build support for ACORN campaigns. Widely covered by national press, the convention highlighted the minimum wage ballot initiative campaigns underway in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio. Over 2,000 ACORN members went door-to-door in Columbus educating voters about the Ohio minimum wage ballot measure. The next day, ACORN members marched down High Street in Columbus to the Ohio State Capitol to rally with Ohio House of Representatives Minority Leader Joyce Beatty, Tim Burga
of the Ohio AFL-CIO and U.S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones. You cant live on minimum wage. Get educated and get in the street and fight for yourself. ACORN can help you, Representative Tubbs
Jones told the large crowd. In addition to Clinton and Edwards, notable speakers also included AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Reverend Al Sharpton and comedienne Roseanne Barr, who praised ACORN members for the work they do in their communities.
All of us are locked arm-in-arm in this fight, to make sure that we live in a country where no one man or woman works full time and still lives in poverty.
former Senator John Edwards
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Convention Speakers
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Senator
John Edwards
Former U.S. Senator U.S. Representative
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Sherrod Brown

Ohio State Senator City of Columbus Mayor Ohio House Minority Leader Ohio State Senator Ohio AFL-CIO
Michael Coleman Joyce Beatty
C. J. Prentiss Tim Burga
Roseanne Barr Actor and Comedienne
At the 2006 National Convention, ACORN community leaders led workshops on living wages, building stronger and safer communities, Hurricane Katrina recovery, and immigration reform.
Webcasting the ACORN National Convention to the World

ACORN used innovative technology to broadcast the convention on the Internet, allowing people around the country and the world to log on and view in real time the speeches of Senator Hillary Clinton, former Senator John Edwards, and others as they addressed over 2,500 ACORN members and allies.
Al Sharpton Activist
John Sweeney AFL-CIO President
Eliseo Medina SEIU Executive VP
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INCREASING CIVIC PARTICIPATION

ACORN Runs Largest GOTV Effort in Midterm Election History
4547,000 low-income and minority voters

registered
41.5 million houses visited and 685,000

voters reached with information on elections
44,100 ACORN
volunteers and canvassers went door to door in targeted neighborhoods in 20 states largest registrant of youth voters in the United States during 2006 register more voters during this election cycle than any organization in any mid-term election in United States history
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register to vote and has contacted 9 million voters about local, state, and federal elections since 1993
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ACORN and Allies Protect Voting Rights

ACORN and allies including Project Vote and the Advancement Project won legal victories striking down restrictions on voter registration in Ohio, Georgia, and other states. In Pennsylvania, Washington, and Maryland, ACORN and allies defeated provisions disqualifying voters based on routine errors in state databases. In Florida, ACORN stopped a series of measures making it harder to put referendums on the ballot, like ACORNs successful 2004 initiative raising the statewide minimum wage.
Karen Inman St. Paul, MN I

still dont know what I want to be when I grow up, says Minneapolis ACORN Member Karen Inman, age 69. A special education teacher for thirtythree years, a lawyer for nine years, and a union representative for the National Education Association for twenty years, Karen joined ACORN two years ago. Ive been an activist all my life, and ACORNs issues are always my issues, she explains. Karens experience earning a teachers salary helped her identify with low-wage workers who would benefit from St. Pauls living wage legislation proposed last year, and her experience as a lawyer gave her the skills she needed to get that work done. I can talk forever about anything, Karen says, explaining that it was easy for her to meet with city council members and to convince Minneapolis/St. Paul TV and
radio stations and newspapers to cover ACORNs work on the wage issue. She also helped contact and register voters during the 2006 election, and credits Minnesotas voter-friendly laws with making her phone-calling and doorknocking exceptionally easy. Minnesotans can register on election day and just vote. So, you arent limited to contacting registered voters--you can call everyone! The Minneapolis get-out-thevote effort was a huge success, with 13,000 voters registered. Karen herself was elected to her neighborhoods District 7 Planning Council, an executive board that previews issues for the city council. Working on this committee, Karen hopes to protect a low-income neighborhood which is the future site for the citys new light rail project.
Ive been an activist all my life, and ACORNs issues are always my issues.
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INCREASING CIVIC PARTICIPATION

Building Neighborhood Networks of Political Activists
The ACORN Precinct Action Leader Program recruits and trains ACORN members to boost civic participation in their neighborhoods by contacting and registering low-income, minority, and infrequent voters. Each volunteer Precinct Action Leader creates and manages a list of voters many of who are neighbors, friends, and family and is in charge of contacting each voter several times before the election to make sure they are registered, informed and ready to vote.
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hen her brother Erasmo Villavicencio died in September 2005, Alicia Russell wasnt an ACORN member yet. She knew about Erasmos ACORN work that for over two years he had worked on neighborhood improvements like speed bumps, and he fought passionately to raise Phoenixs minimum wage but she had not yet joined the cause. After my brother died, when I was going through his things, I collected a whole bag full of his notes about ACORNs minimum wage campaign, Ms. Russell explains. Then I decided to join ACORN and carry on his work. Ms. Russell steadily increased her work with ACORN and in July 2006 she became an ACORN Precinct Action Leader, or APAL, and began registering and engaging a network of voters in her neighborhood. As an APAL Ms. Russell registered 43 friends and family members to vote, and then enlisted them to register others. Her daughter registered students
Alicia Russell Phoenix, AZ W
on the campus of her community college, while Spanish-speakers in Ms. Russells APAL network reached out to West Phoenixs Latino population. Ms. Russells next step was to inform the newly registered voters about Proposition 202. She knew what it was like to work for low wages since she had spent 12 years as a single mother raising two daughters on a poverty income so she related these experiences to voters to motivate their support of Proposition 202. When I told women voters that a wage increase would benefit 58 percent of Arizonas female workers, they listened, she says. When the wage initiative passed with 66 percent of Arizonas vote, Ms. Russell knew her brother would have been proud of her work. Erasmo knew what it was like to work for low wages. We were both raised in the Arizona cotton fields, working from the time we were eleven. Erasmo would have been thrilled about this victory, she says.
When I told women voters that a wage increase would benefit 58 percent of Arizonas female workers, they listened.
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KATRINA: THE RIGHT TO RETURN AND REBUILD
n 2006, ACORN organized to address the needs of Katrina survivors from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast who continue the fight to return and rebuild their homes, lives and communities. After reopening its national and local organizing operations in New Orleans, ACORN waged a successful grassroots campaign in the city to prevent low-income and minority neighborhoods from being seized and demolished. At the same time, ACORN worked to protect survivors voting rights, help displaced families claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, fight for additional resources, and organize survivors in Washington, DC, and around the country for a real voice in the rebuilding of New Orleans. In February, nearly 500 Katrina survivors from several states traveled to Washington, DC for
the ACORN Rally for Return and Rebuilding. They rallied with Congressional leaders, met with FEMA and administration officials, and brought the national spotlight back to the need for federal rebuilding assistance.
Helping Survivors in Katrinas Wake

10,000 hurricane 4 organized intosurvivors the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association Cleanout Demonstration Program ing counseling from the ACORN Housing Corporation
gutted and 41,850 housesthe Home preserved by 4,000 home4 displacedhousowners received
18,000 4 displaced New Orleans voters reached
with information about Mayoral and City Council elections.
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Bringing Back the Ninth Ward

In New Orleans, ACORN organized to prevent the city from taking property through eminent domain in flooded communities and also successfully pressured the city to restore utilities services in the Ninth Ward. In May, ACORN convinced the city council to pass a law exempting the hardest hit areas of the Lower Ninth Ward from a demolition deadline. In October, after meeting with ACORN members, the City certified the water in the Lower Ninth Ward as safe for use, allowing residents to return to live in temporary trailers and begin rebuilding their homes.
Gwendolyn Adams New Orleans, LA I

n 1985, a tanker car full of the toxic chemical butadiene exploded during a crash near Gwendolyn Adams New Orleans home. Ms. Adams joined her neighborhood ACORN chapter and marched with New Orleans ACORN on City Hall to demand the Ninth Ward be taken off the route of tanker cars. After Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Adams faced off with the City of New Orleans againthis time she fought with ACORN to stop the city from demolishing homes that Ninth Ward and other New Orleans homeowners wanted to preserve. ACORN convinced the city council to exempt Ninth Ward property from the citys plan to demolish damaged homes. However, ACORN could not act in time to win an appeal to save Ms. Adams home. On August 19, one of her neighbors phoned to say that bulldozers were tearing down her house. By the time we got there, there was nothing left, Ms. Adams explains. Another neighbors home and a nearby church were also torn down. For Ms. Adams, the heartbreaking incident underscored the need for citizens to vigilantly monitor New Orleans city planning process. We need to make sure that the laws that are passed are also enforced, she says. She knew the key to creating a stronger voice for Ninth Ward residents was to bring them back home, so next Ms. Adams worked with ACORN to pressure the city to restore water, sewer, and electricity services to the area. The services were restored in October 2006, paving the way for her neighbors to return, rebuild their homes, and fight for ownership of their community.
Ms. Adams knew the key to creating a stronger voice for Ninth Ward residents was to bring them back home.
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Saving Neighborhoods One House at a Time

ACORNs Home Clean-Out Demonstration Program gutted over 1,850 homes in the Ninth Ward, Gentilly, and New Orleans East neighborhoods to preserve them for later rebuilding. The program partnered with Starbucks and other sponsors to recruit volunteers from around the country who contributed over 12,250 hours to help remove debris in damaged homes, save personal belongings, rip out dry wall, and put tarps on roofs to prevent deterioration.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Tanya Harris became a community organizer with ACORN after Hurricane Katrina and is working with ACORN members to fight for the rebuilding of the Lower Ninth Ward.
ACORN is gutting up to 200 homes [per month] in poor parts of the city homes they hope can be rebuilt. One of those belonged to 73-year-old Edna Alexander Berkley, who had to chisel through the attic of her home after the 17th Street levee collapsed. She has since relied on ACORN to gut her home and help guide her through the beginnings of the rebuilding process like getting a permit from the city to rebuild. Now staying with her son, Berkley makes a simple vow: Ill be home soon.
--US News and World Reports, Feb. 27, 2006
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ACORN Wins Housing Assistance Extension for Thousands

In November, a federal district judge ruled in favor of ACORN and Katrina survivors who had been denied FEMA housing assistance without a clear explanation or appeal process. The judge forced FEMA to send out new letters of explanation to thousands of Katrina survivors in Texas, which allowed over 1,000 families to win appeals and have their housing aid restored. In January 2007, FEMA responded to pressure from ACORN and others and extended temporary housing assistance by six months for over 100,000 survivor households.
Joe Sherman New Orleans, LA I

n 2000 Joe Sherman moved into the Hollygrove, New Orleans, home his family had owned for 60 years. During his first two years there, eight murders were committed within four blocks of his home, and Mr. Sherman began attending ACORN community meetings to push police to staff a substation closer to his neighborhood. The closest precinct was 20 minutes away, Mr. Sherman explains. Just when Mr. Shermans ACORN chapter was finally winning a new police substation for their community, Katrina hit New Orleans. When he returned home a month and a half after the storm, Mr. Shermans neighborhood was a mess. Huge water lines need to be repaired, he explains. We need better transportation and a better school systemand were starting from scratch. Mr. Sherman got involved in the series of forums that ACORN organized to bring together community members and planning experts from around the country, and he used
his experience as an engineer to give an informed opinion on issues like the improvement of water drainage and repair of street signs. The biggest problem is that we need people with the skills to address these issues, but we have no place for them to live, Mr. Sherman says. In order to let FEMA install temporary housing on damaged properties in the Lower Ninth Ward, the water had to be certified as potable by the Sewerage and Water Board. After ACORN and other community members met with city officials, in October 2006 water was certified as safe for use in all parts of the Lower Ninth Ward, allowing residents to return home and begin making repairs. Mr. Sherman is confident that ACORNs successful grassroots work will unite New Orleans residents who want a say in the planning process. New Orleans is one of the last villages, he says. Families have been here for so long that we find it easier to come together.
New Orleans is one of the last villages. Families have been here for so long that we find it easier to come together.
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Planning the Future of New Orleans
A group of urban planners and architects led by the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, University of Illinois, and Pratt Institute worked with ACORN, ACORN Housing Corporation, and more than 600 community residents to develop a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the 7th and 8th planning districts of New Orleans. From these discussions and an architectural evaluation of over 1000 homes, ACORN and its community and university partners released two documents providing a roadmap to a rebuilt New Orleans.
REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
ACORN Planning Principles, published in July 2006, presents a vision for rebuilding New Orleans and outlines specific policy proposals in a number of critical planning categories: housing, jobs, education, transportation, safety and security, healthcare, and parks.
ACORN PLANNING PRINCIPLES

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The Peoples Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues: A Cooperative Approach to Promoting a More Vibrant, Sustainable and Equitable 9th Ward, published at the end of the year, offers assessments of social and economic conditions on the ground in New Orleans before and after the hurricane. The report also details a five year recovery plan for the Ninth Ward to restore the community, enhance quality of life, and enable former residents and business owners to return home.
a comprehensive strategy for building a more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable 9th Ward
ACORN Housing University Partnership
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Protecting Survivors Voting Rights

To ensure displaced residents continued to have a voice in the future of New Orleans, ACORN ran a massive voter education and get-out-thevote campaign in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. ACORN provided information on the Mayoral and City Council elections in New Orleans to more than 18,000 displaced residents.
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FINANCIAL JUSTICE
Fighting Predatory and Payday Lenders Nationwide
As part of ACORNs ongoing campaign against the abusive lending practices of Wells Fargo, one of the nations largest subprime lenders, ACORN launched a new website, www.wellsfargoproblems.org, to expose Wells predatory practices and In Rhode Island, ACORN helped pass one of the strongest laws in the country regulating predatory home loans. ACORN members, using proxy shares provided by Responsible Wealth/United for a Fair Economy, attended Wells Fargos annual shareholder meeting and testified on the financial devastation created by Wells loans. ACORN also held rallies at the offices of payday lending companies around the country that charge exorbitant interest rates on short term loans in low and moderate income communities.
help consumers identify and escape predatory loans. In April, a delegation of
ACORN released the study The Impending Rate Shock: A Study of Home Mortgages in 130 American Cities in August, which found Americas lower income and minority communities receive a disproportionate number of subprime loans and thus are most at risk of defaults and foreclosures. The report documented that many families with subprime loans are unable to pay their mortgages due to rising interest rates, threatening the security of individual homeowners and entire neighborhoods.
Tax Preparers Agree to Eliminate Millions in Fees

After negotiations with ACORN, Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Tax eliminated their application fees on Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) in 7,000 stores saving low and moderate income customers over $164 million per year! In Hempstead, N.Y., an ACORN-backed local law took effect in January that requires tax preparers to prominently display fees for high-cost RALs.
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FINANCIAL JUSTICE
Helping Families Claim the EITC and Child Tax Credits
ACORN Free Tax Preparation and Benefit Access Centers in 72 cities helped 30,000 lowincome families collect over $38 million in refunds, including $25 million in EITC and Child Tax Credits. With support from the William J. Clinton Foundation, ACORN also conducted EITC outreach targeting Katrina survivors in 10 cities and prepared taxes for nearly 1,000 survivors.
ACORN members understand that were a stronger nation when we stand together to build a better future for all of our families. Ive been proud to work together with you for economic justice and a stronger voice for low and moderateincome people.
-- President Bill Clinton Message to ACORN 2006 Natl Convention
ACORNs Free Tax Preparation Program

ACORN is one of our most successful national partners [and] has had the most significant growth, a remarkable accomplishment and a tribute to ACORNs ability to nationally design and implement a complex program throughout a group of affiliate organizations.
--Ron Smith Chief Volunteer & Comm. Partnerships Internal Revenue Service/SPEC
3 cities 3,500 returns $4M in EITC and Child Tax Credit benefits
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AFFORDABLE AND SAFE HOUSING

Securing Thousands of Affordable Housing Units in Our Communities
ACORN members successfully fought for affordable housing set-asides in specific developments in New York City, Garden City, N.Y., Los Angeles, Calif., and other cities. In New York City, ACORN and the Housing Here and Now Coalition won a lowincome housing trust fund and an affordable housing requirement in areas of high development, which will create over 20,000 units of affordable housing. New York ACORN also secured a $10 million city budget allocation saving 8,400 Section 8 vouchers. Also in New York, a state board gave final approval for a multi-billion dollar development in downtown Brooklyn, which will include 2,500 affordable rental and home ownership units as part of an ACORN-negotiated agreement.
Improving Living Conditions for Low-income Tenants

Around the country ACORN organized tenants to win better conditions in their buildings. ACORN chapters won changes in a number of cities: Madison, Wisc., ACORN members helped pass a citywide ordinance allowing tenants to make repairs to their apartment and then deduct the cost from their rent. In Oakland, Calif., and Toronto, Canada, ACORN members won legal cases granting them thousands of dollars to repair their apartments. California ACORN members and allies waged a grassroots campaign to pass a statewide bill giving tenants 30 additional days to vacate a rental property after receiving a no-fault eviction notice.
In San Antonio, Texas, and Minneapolis, Minn., ACORN members won hundreds of thousands of dollars to help low-income tenants make health and safety repairs to their homes. In South Apopka, Fla., ACORN worked with Senator Mel Martinez to secure $100,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to relocate 50 families living in a dilapidated housing complex.
Id been calling the Jackson City Council for months about an abandoned building in my neighborhood, and Id never heard back. After we held an ACORN rally on the site and got some media attention, the council got the building boarded up and passed an ordinance that required all Jackson property owners to board-up their abandoned properties.
--Diane Barnes, ACORN Leader Jackson, Mississippi
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IMPROVING UTILITIES SERVICE

Keeping the Heat On: ACORN Wins Utilities Reforms
ACORN chapters nationwide won reforms of utilities practices, helping low-income customers pay their bills and avoid service disruptions. In Texas, ACORN won a statewide no shut-off agreement during the summer from the Public Service Commission for senior citizens, and a one-time additional payment plan for low-income households in deregulated areas within the state. In Florida, ACORN members convinced a state commission to reduce proposed utilities surcharges by $500 million. In Orlando, Fla., after a yearlong campaign, the Orlando Utilities Commission agreed to implement a no shut-off policy in temperatures
below 34 or above 94 degrees, to offer reasonable payment plans, and to double its con-
tributions to an energy assistance program for low-income families. Houston ACORN successfully pressured Reliant Energy to set up a $600,000 weatherization program to help make homes more energy efficient in the Acres Homes section of the city. ACORN chapters also ran successful campaigns for utilities reforms in Michigan, Maryland, and Dallas, Texas.
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Imelda Benson Houston,TX I

melda Benson is not just some senior citizen the utility companies can push around. A 74-yearold retiree with six great-grandchildren and 14 grandchildren, she is a self-proclaimed fighter, a longtime civil rights activist who attended Martin Luther Kings March on Washington in 1963 and marched for civil rights in Jackson, Cicero, and Chicago. When Houstons Reliant Energy charged Ms. Benson $800 in January 2006 when she was on vacation and not using her electricity, she fought back. Ms. Benson, an ACORN member since 2004, wanted to fight Reliant Energy on behalf of seniors who were paying outrageous bills for Houstons cold winters and hot, humid summers. It took me 10 months to pay off my bill, and many other seniors are in the same predicament, she explains. First, ACORN pushed Reliant to stop its practice of cutting off seniors air conditioning dur-
ing summer months when heat waves are often deadly for older people. Ms. Benson attended two ACORN rallies held at Reliant Energys downtown office, and helped deliver 1,500 signatures to Reliant administrators who hid in their offices. Ms. Benson finally got to meet her foe face-to-face when she attended a rally at Reliants annual stockholder meeting. Barred from the hotel where the meeting was held, she and other ACORN members sneaked up a back staircase to crash the party. I handed our letter and signatures to a man in a suit and it turned out he was Reliants CEO! Ms. Benson explains. I told him, Youre the one who needs to change things. In July 2006 ACORN won a statewide no shut-off agreement and helped open a resource center to help Houston residents understand the citys deregulated utility system.
When I fought Reliant Energy over my own bill I was ignored. When I fought with ACORN we won improvements for everyone.
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BETTER SCHOOLS
ll children deserve a quality education that gives them the chance to succeed. ACORN members have been working to improve the quality of public schools nationwide by pushing for more school funding and developing innovative education programs in low-income communities. California ACORN and allies won passage of a state law to improve the recruitment of teachers and ensure they receive quality training, mentoring and support. Chicago ACORN and coalition partners won a new appropriation of $3 million for Grow Your Own Teacher projects to recruit and train public school
teachers in low-income communities around the state. Chanting Put Children Before Politics, over 1,000 ACORN members and union and community partners in the Say Yes To Children Network marched to Los Angeles City Hall for increased school funding. In Long Island, N.Y., ACORN helped reinstate the budget for pre-K programs in the Roosevelt Union Free School District for 20062007.
Delaware ACORN member Gina Backus was elected to a seat on the Christina School Board in Wilmington in May.
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Toni Foulkes Chicago, IL T

oni Foulkes memories of ACORN date back to her childhood in the 1980s when she lived in the apartment building her aunt owned in the West Englewood section of Chicago. Her aunt held ACORN meetings in her apartment, and Ms. Foulkes remembers the groups of adults getting all fired up. An ACORN member since 1997, Ms. Foulkes now owns and lives in the same apartment building and has spent almost her entire life in Englewood. They call this one of the worst neighborhoods in the city, but we have a strong community, she says, describing lively block parties and the way watchful adults look after all the neighborhood children. Ms. Foulkes, who has a degree in business, runs a bakery that serves neighborhood families she has known all her life. Her love for West Englewood made her a natural supporter of ACORNs Grow Your Own Initiative, which began as an ACORN-organized pilot program to provide training for paraprofessionals, parents, and
community members to become certified teachers in Illinois low-income public schools. Ms. Foulkes remembers her own grade school teacher talking to her parents in their living room and is glad that this new program hires teachers from local neighborhoods. If teachers are invested in the neighborhood, then theyll stick around, she says. She spoke at many events in support of Grow Your Own, including the Institute for Education and Social Policy Symposium at New York University. Ms. Foulkes celebrated with other ACORN members when the state legislature passed a bill in 2004 to establish a Grow Your Own Teachers pilot initiative and again in 2006 when the legislature allocated $3 million to fund the program statewide. She says that her work with ACORN has taught her more than valuable public speaking skills. It has taught her that community activism can work. ACORN is a good teacher, Ms. Foulkes says. You can learn so much tuition free.
Everything I fought for with ACORN was for others. I gave 150% effort for those who needed help.
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HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
ith 45 million families lacking health insurance in the United States, access to affordable health care is a critical need in ACORN communities. In 2006, ACORN mobilized to hold hospitals and local governments accountable to providing health care for those who cant afford coverage.
ACORN Wins Healthcare Coverage and Debt Reductions for Thousands

In San Francisco, ACORN was part of a successful coalition effort to pass the first citywide universal health care ordinance in the country. The law requires medium and large businesses to provide health care to their workers, and qualifies 82,000 uninsured residents for free, comprehensive health care services at city hospitals and clinics. ACORN chapters in San Diego, Calif., and Columbus, Ohio, also helped eliminate over $700,000 in medical debt and over $1.2 million in liens for patients unfairly denied reduced cost charity care at local hospitals.
Chicago ACORN worked with allies to stop Advocate Health Care from closing a hospital serving low-income city residents in the Westside neighborhood. ACORN members helped saved the hospital by rallying at Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board meetings, organizing a postcard campaign, and marching on the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings assassination.
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Giselle Quezada San Francisco, CA A

CORN member Giselle Quezada is a communications technician who often climbs telephone poles to repair damaged lines in San Francisco. In 2006 she also served as a spokesperson for thousands of San Franciscans who lack health insurance. In February 2006, after months of organizing by a labor, faith and community coalition for a model health plan, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom formed a special council to plan health services for uninsured city residents. Since Ms. Quezada was recognized as an active member of ACORN, she was appointed to the council to represent the concerns of uninsured workers. A union leader with Communications Workers of America for nearly 20 years, she started to organize residents at city health clinics to build a base of support for worker-friendly provisions of the councils healthcare proposal. This is not just one battle that each person fights alone, Ms. Quezada says of her spokesperson role. We all come together to make change. Due in part to her field organizing, the proposal included a mandate requiring employers to pay for their share of San Franciscos health care costs. Ms. Quezada told the council many stories of workers devastated by health care costs including 20year-old Raul Torres who lost his construction job after breaking his leg and, without any income, struggled to pay off a $7,000 hospital debt. She told them about her own daughter whose employer kept her at 39 hours per week to avoid paying her health benefits. After she worked with other coalition members to gather support letters and lobby in a swing supervisors districts, in July the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance providing health care to all city residents with the employer mandate intact.
This is not just one battle that each person fights alone. We all come together to make change.
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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
ACORN Participates in Mass Movement for Immigration Reform
ACORN members joined the largest mass movement the U.S. has seen in decades as they participated in marches around the nation to demand comprehensive immigration reform, which includes an earned path to citizenship. ACORN members worked with local community partners in April and May to organize dozens of rallies. These events united immigrants and their allies opposed to federal legislation that would have made it a felony to be undocumented in the U.S. or to aid undocumented immigrants.
The response of the people to our call for support was great. I feel were going to have a great impact. Despite all the fears of being arrested, people came out and showed their support. These rallies confirm that the people want a chance for real immigration reform.
--Brendy Gutierrez ACORN member, Palm Beach County
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In April and May, ACORN joined millions of immigrants and allies marching in over 100 cities to support comprehensive immigration reform.
In Los Angeles, ACORN members stood with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at one of several rallies held in the city throughout the day, which drew 700,000 supporters. San Diego ACORN played a leading role in organizing an immigrant rights rally of 30,000 in the citys Balboa Park. Chicagos march included 400,000 participants, 1,200 of whom were ACORN members. The President of ACORNs sister organization SEIU Local 880 Helen Miller spoke at the rally. Orlando ACORN member Tamecka Pierce spoke to a crowd of 30,000 at the local rally, which was organized by ACORN and the Farmworkers Association.
ACORN also helped organize marches of thousands of immigrants and allies in Albuquerque, N.M., Las Vegas, Nev., Little Rock,
Ark, Palm Beach County, Fla., Raleigh, N.C., San Diego and San Jose, Calif., and Wilmington, Del.
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Cleaning Up Lead Paint Hazards in ACORN Neighborhoods
ACORN held protests at Sherwin Williams stores throughout the United States, Canada, and Latin America as part of an ongoing campaign to demand that paint manufacturers pay for the clean up of lead paint that has poisoned hundreds of thousands of children. ACORN released the report Sherwin Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics, which documents how SherwinWilliams sold lead paint for
Each year over 300,000 children under the age of five suffer from lead poisoning.
decades knowing it was dangerous. The cities of El Paso, Texas, and Providence, R.I., also divested thousands of shares of stock from Sherwin
Williams after hearing ACORN members testify about the impact of lead poisoning in their communities.
In reviewing the history of Sherwin-Williams and its production and sale of lead-based paint, there is ample evidence that the company knew for decades the dangers of lead based paint, and chose to conceal this knowledge.
-- Sherwin Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics
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TAKING ON WAL-MART
WARNs predictive mapping program charts potential locations of new Wal-Mart stores.
n 2005, ACORN co-founded the Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now to hold Wal-Mart accountable to community standards and fair labor policies. WARN sets up local coalitions in areas where the company is planning to build new stores, and mobilizes local stakeholders to fight Wal-Mart as it attempts to secure approval and per-
mits to build facilities. In 2006, WARN stopped the building of a Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Orlando, Fla., as well as stores in Sarasota, Plant City, and Temple Terrace, Fla. Also in Florida, the Orange County Commission enacted a oneyear moratorium, backed by ACORN and WARN, barring big box retailers from build-
ing new stores in the county. ACORN and WARN also successfully fought the opening of a Wal-Mart distribution center in Merced, Calif., and developed a predictive mapping program which identifies locations of future Wal-Marts to help communities plan to fight the company.
Fighting Foreign Direct Investment in India

The ACORN India Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Watch Campaign seeks to prevent foreign conglomerates like Wal-Mart from entering the India market unless they make guarantees to protect communities, ensure the stability of small businesses, and provide fair wages and working conditions. ACORN has built a broad coalition of labor unions, trade associations, and nongovernmental organizations across India to prevent foreign direct investment. This coalition is meeting with members of Parliament from several political parties and beginning grassroots organizing campaigns in Mumbai and Delhi.
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ORGANIZING WITH LABOR UNIONS NATIONWIDE

Building a Movement of Organized Child Care Providers
ACORN, the ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center, and union partners are leading the effort to organize low wage home childcare providers across the country to win better wages and benefits. In 2006, our sister organization SEIU Local 880 signed the first home childcare provider union contract in the country, bringing more than $250 million in pay rate increases and benefits to 40,000 childcare providers in Illinois. New York ACORN and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) won state legislation with the governors approval expected in 2007 giving over 25,000 childcare providers the right to bargain collectively for better wages. In New Jersey, ACORN worked alongside CWA and AFSCME to organize over 7,000 childcare providers, and helped secure an Executive Order from the governor granting the providers collective bargaining rights.
SEIU Local 880 Wins Rate Increase for Homecare Workers

SEIU Local 880 members won the second largest rate increase for private homecare companies in the history of the Department on Aging homecare program. Workers won improvements like wage increases, rewards for longevity, and increased travel pay.
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center (ACLOC)
ounded in January 2005, ACLOC partners with labor unions in cities around the country and in Canada to organize low wage workers for better wages and benefits. Nationally, ACLOC and ACORNs joint work with Justice for Janitors has allowed new collective bargaining rights for janitors, maintenance workers and security officers working in shopping malls across the country. In Houston, ACLOC organized janitors in downtown businesses with support from Houston ACORN members, and won the first union contract in the citys history. Also in Houston, ACLOC teamed up with HOPE (the Houston Organization of Public Employees), a joint AFSCME and SEIU labor organization, to win union recognition for 13,000 city employees and the right to bargain a contract for the first time in Texas history. ACLOC, along with ACORN and its labor partners helped win union recognition for thousands of childcare providers in New Jersey, New York, and Washington. ACLOC also provided assistance to unions organizing childcare workers in Iowa, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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ACORN HOUSING CORPORATION
n 2006, ACORN Housing Corporations housing counseling program helped 13,738 families become first-time homeowners, and refinanced 1,474 homeowners out of high cost subprime loans and into more affordable mortgages. ACORN Housings development program secured over $140 million in construction financing to develop 735 new units of affordable housing in Houston, Phoenix, Chicago, and New York. As part of the ACORN/ ACORN Housing Corporation partnership with HSBC, 764 low-income and minority households with Household loans received help with their mortgage payments. Since 2003, HSBC has spent over $72 million through the Foreclosure Avoidance Program to reduce
mortgage interest rates for more than 6,700 borrowers at risk of losing their homes. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, ACORN Housing provided housing counseling to over 4,000 displaced homeowners and built the first new houses
in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward. ACORN Housing was also awarded 150 properties in the Lower Ninth Ward by the City of New Orleans Adjudicated Property Program, which ACORN Housing will develop into affordable housing.
Homeowners Once Again in New Orleans 9th Ward
wendolyn Guice owned a home in the Lower Ninth Ward next to her neighbor Josephine Butler. Guice and Butler, both of whom are ACORN members, saw their homes heavily damaged by floodwaters during Hurricane Katrina. In February, ACORN Housing completed construction of two state-of-the-art wind-resistant homes for the two women to enable them return to New Orleans. The homes, which were the first to be built in the Lower Ninth Ward after the hurricane, can withstand 160 mph winds and have mold and termite resistant siding. They were designed by Louisiana State University architecture students and were underwritten by Countrywide Bank.
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TAKING ACTION FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
very day, ACORN members in over 1,000 local neighborhood chapters meet to discuss community issues, and then mobilize to make changes through negotiation, legislation, direct action, and civic participation. ACORN members won hundreds of local victories in 2006, from stop signs and speed humps to budget allocations for vital services. The following are a few notable examples of ACORN neighborhood chapters in action: Las Vegas, Nev., ACORN won $600,000 from the city to install sidewalks along eight city blocks and several crossing guards for an elementary school. In El Paso, Texas, ACORN members convinced the statewide Commission on Environmental Quality to force the industrial mineral company Oglebay Norton to clean up a city cemetery contaminated with lead and arsenic. In Long Island, N.Y., ACORN members won $250,000 for a legal aid program, and $300,000 for improvements to Long Island Bus services.
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Little Rock, Ark., ACORN and allies defeated a quartercent sales tax increase, which would have paid for a project to double the size of the county jail. St. Paul, Minn., ACORN members secured an ACORN Farmers Market where Hmong immigrant families sell fresh produce and bakery items at a mall in the Frogtown neighborhood. Illinois ACORN helped pass a statewide record sealing law to help nonviolent ex-offenders find jobs. Minnesota ACORN members and the state Attorney General won a settlement with Coldwell Banker, which requires the company to pay up to $375,000 for deceptively selling homes with major structural flaws to immigrant families. ACORN members won increased police accountability in neighborhoods in Contra Costa County, Calif., Portland, Ore., Jacksonville, Fla., and San Antonio, Texas. In Lima, Peru, ACORN members stopped a major phone company from constructing a cell phone antenna in the low-income Pando neighborhood.
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RESEARCH AND REPORTS
n 2006, ACORN produced several national studies and reports, in many cases co-authored with the American Institute for Social Justice and other research partners, which examined specific issues affecting low and moderate income communities.
Missing Millions: Expanding Access to the Earned Income Tax Credit for Working Families January
2006 2006
The Florida Minimum Wage After One Year May Regulation of Payday Lending in Canada June 2006 Sherwin Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics June 2006 Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina: ACORN Planning Principles July 2006 The Impending Rate Shock: A Study of Home Mortgages in 130 American Cities August 2006 New Orleans: Recover, Rebuild, Organize August
2006
Because of their size and market share, Sherwin-Williams has the largest obligation of any paint manufacturer to take the lead in being environmentally conscientious. We believe that we will show that SherwinWilliams has not acted in good faith to protect the health of the American public and to protect our environment in a number of areas.
-- Sherwin Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics
Rebuild New Orleans, Rebuild America: Commemorating Hurricane Katrina August 2006 The Monetary Impact of ACORN Campaigns: A Ten Year Retrospective, 1995-2004 November 2006 A Peoples Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues: A Cooperative Approach to Promoting a More Vibrant, Sustainable and Equitable 9th Ward January
2007
Using a range of issue-specific methodologies, a conservative estimate puts the total monetary value of ACORN victories for the last decade at $15 billion, or an average of $1.5 billion per year since 1995.
-- The Monetary Impact of ACORN Campaigns: A Ten Year Retrospective
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ACORN ORGANIZED CITIES

(New cities are in bold) Birmingham, AL Little Rock, AR Pine Bluff, AR Buenos Aires, Argentina Glendale, AZ Mesa, AZ Phoenix, AZ Tucson, AZ Vancouver, BC Bakersfield, CA Chula Vista, CA Concord, CA Contra Costa Co., CA Daly City, CA Fresno, CA Garden Grove, CA Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA Oakland, CA Richmond, CA Sacramento, CA San Bernardino, CA San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA San Mateo County, CA Santa Ana, CA Colorado Springs, CO Denver, CO Bridgeport, CT Hartford, CT Washington, DC Wilmington, DE Belle Glade, FL Ft. Lauderdale, FL Hallandale Beach, FL Hialeah, FL Jacksonville, FL Miami, FL North Dade, FL North Miami Beach, FL Orlando, FL Palm Beach Co., FL Pompano Beach, FL Riviera Beach, FL St. Petersburg, FL Tallahassee, FL Tampa, FL Atlanta, GA Honolulu, HI Des Moines, IA Quad Cities, IA Chicago, IL Springfield, IL Indianapolis, IN Northwest, IN Kansas City, KS Topeka, KS Wichita, KS Louisville, KY Baton Rouge, LA Lake Charles, LA New Orleans, LA Boston, MA Springfield, MA Baltimore, MD Baltimore Co., MD Prince Georges Co, MD Tijuana, Mexico Detroit, MI Flint, MI Grand Rapids, MI Lansing, MI Saginaw, MI St. Paul, MN Minneapolis, MN Kansas City, MO St. Louis, MO Jackson, MS Charlotte, NC Raleigh, NC Omaha, NE Carteret, NJ Elizabeth, NJ Jersey City, NJ Newark, NJ Passaic, NJ Paterson, NJ Perth Amboy, NJ Trenton, NJ Union City, NJ West New York, NJ Albuquerque, NM Las Cruces, NM Las Vegas, NV Buffalo, NY Hempstead, NY New York City, NY Akron, OH Cincinnati, OH Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Dayton, OH Toledo, OH Oklahoma City, OK Ottawa, ON Toronto, ON Portland, OR Allentown, PA Erie, PA Harrisburg, PA Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Lima, Peru Providence, RI Columbia, SC Memphis, TN Nashville, TN Arlington, TX Austin, TX Brownsville, TX Dallas, TX El Paso, TX Ft. Worth, TX Houston, TX Irving, TX Pasadena, TX San Antonio, TX Waco, TX Norfolk, VA Seattle, WA Madison, WI

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