ACORN and the Occupy protests...who'da thunk it?

[jnevis]

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.
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NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.
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Multiple sources said NYCC is also using cash donations through canvassing efforts in New York’s Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods for union-backed campaigns to fund the Wall Street protests.

“All the money collected from canvasses is pooled together back at the office, and everything we’ve been working on for the last year is going to the protests, against big banks and to pay people’s salaries—and those people on salary are, of course, being paid to go to the protests every day,” one NYCC staff member told FoxNews.com.

Those who contribute don't know the money is going to fund the protests, the source said.

“They give contributions because we say if they do we can fix things - whatever specific problem they’re having in their area, housing, schools, whatever ... then we spend the contributions paying staff to be at the protests all day, every day. That’s where these contributions - the community’s money – is going,” the source said.
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“What people don’t understand is that ACORN is behind this — and that this, what’s happening now, is all part of the May 12 and Beyond May 12 plans to go after the banks, Chase in particular,” a source said.

Sources said NYCC was a key player behind a series of recent Occupy Wall Street events, including the Oct. 11 Millionaires March, which brought protests and union and community groups on walking tours of Upper East Side homes of wealthy New Yorkers; and the launch of the “Occupy the Boardroom” website, registered to Kest, which encouraged protesters to contact high-profile bankers, among others.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/#ixzz1bu4gmZRa

[Solus]

And we thought the Occupiers didn't have jobs.....

[Pathfinder]

This is my shocked - shocked I tell you! - face. . . . . .

[Rocasalami]

Well, really, nobody should be shocked that a left-of-center organization is expressing support for and trying to help a left-of-center protest movement. The surprising thing would be if it weren't.

But to jump from that to a conclusion that ACORN is not only in support of, but somehow "behind" the Occupy movement, so that without ACORN's support the movement wouldn't exist, is a leap of illogic.

[Pathfinder]

Well, really, nobody should be shocked that a left-of-center organization is expressing support for and trying to help a left-of-center protest movement. The surprising thing would be if it weren't.

But to jump from that to a conclusion that ACORN is not only in support of, but somehow "behind" the Occupy movement, so that without ACORN's support the movement wouldn't exist, is a leap of illogic.

No, it's a documented fact. Lerner of the SEIU and some wanker whose name I lost along the way but one of the original founders of ACORN planned the Occupy ___________ movement back in January/February. This was discussed in a number of threads, go look them up. Or search teh interw3bs with Lerner's name and "Occupy".

BTW, my "shocked" comment was heavily sarcastic! 

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[jnevis]

Well, really, nobody should be shocked that a left-of-center organization is expressing support for and trying to help a left-of-center protest movement. The surprising thing would be if it weren't.

But to jump from that to a conclusion that ACORN is not only in support of, but somehow "behind" the Occupy movement, so that without ACORN's support the movement wouldn't exist, is a leap of illogic.

“What people don’t understand is that ACORN is behind this — and that this, what’s happening now, is all part of the May 12 and Beyond May 12 plans to go after the banks, Chase in particular,” a source said.

Not a big leap in that sentence if you ask me.

[twyacht]

All this is just an appetizer for next year's election....

Vote Early, Vote Often,...will take on a whole new meaning with ACORN involved....Frances Fox Piven has taught them well...

I am not predicting the dawn of global democracy or global socialism. What I am predicting is an era of turmoil and uncertainty.
The hungry and diseased mobs who terrified the burghers of late-medieval Europe were not enlightenment thinkers, nor are the suicide bombers thrust forward by a resurgent Islam.
Frances Fox Piven

Quite the cocktail, with the Saul Alinsky playbook in hand as well. I'm sure BHO's buddy Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright are just waiting for the "chickens to come home to roost"...

[tombogan03884]

Rocasalami, This is where Path got the, "shocked I tell you!"

[twyacht]

But of course, and "round up the usual suspects"....

[tombogan03884]

But of course, and "round up the usual suspects"....

They're all occupying Wall Street.