Radical: ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Founder: Wade Rathke
Co-Founder: Dale Rathke
ACORN’s relevance to “The Machine” is critical. The intentions of the group, as discussed by founder Wade Rathke, are to provide assistance to low income families and individuals. ACORN was designed to promote living wage ordinances, affordable (i.e., taxpayer-funded) housing, mortgage lending, and voter-registration drives. The organization however had a more illicit plan. It would merge the tactics of Saul Alinsky and the strategy of Cloward and Piven.
In the late 1960’s Wade Rathke, a former draft-resistance organizer for SDS, joined NWRO as an organizer. If you read our Cloward and Piven post, you would remember the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) whose intentions were to topple the US welfare system by overwhelming it with recipients. This is noted as "Maximum Eligible Participation" Solution (MEPS). With intense conflict within NWRO’s black militants, Rathke took what he learned from the Cloward and Piven’s NWRO. He then formed ACORN.
Rathke expanded the group to be a juggernaut for the Progressive agenda. It has noted a due-paying membership of greater than 400,000 people. In a Capital Research Center Foundation Watch report, Matthew Vadum explains how The Weather Underground’s intentions have spilled over into the much more patient and methodical community organizing tactics of ACORN.
“ACORN, with its members dressed in bright red shirts, organizes crude protests against business people and public officials. Opposed to the profit motive and capitalism in general, it pushes for more government control over citizens and the economy. ACORN supports gun control, a government monopoly in healthcare and an open door immigration policy. It supports a big raise in the federal minimum wage and so-called ‘living–wage’ laws enacted by states and cities. ACORN wants more funding for urban public schools, and wants federal and state laws enacted guaranteeing paid sick leave for all full-time workers. The group claims to fight for affordable housing and it rails against foreclosures and so-called ‘predatory’ lending, even though it demands that banks make loans destined to default.”
This report also goes into great depth of all the affiliates of ACORN which has created a maze of pathways to divert funds to promote its Marxist agenda.
Among ACORN’s many affiliates and subsidiaries are:
385 Palmetto Street Housing Fund Corp.
4415 San Jacinto Street Corp.
ACORN
Acorn 2004 Housing Development Fund Corp.
Acorn 2005 Housing Development Fund Corp.
ACORN Associates
ACORN Beneficial Association
ACORN BeverlyY LLC
ACORN Campaign Services
ACORN Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage
ACORN Center for Housing, Inc.
ACORN Children’s Beneficial Association
ACORN Community Land Association
ACORN Community Land Association of IL
ACORN Community Land Association of LA
ACORN Community Land Association of PA
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
ACORN Cultural Trust
ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing Development
Fund Corp.
ACORN Fair Housing
ACORN Fund
ACORN Housing Corp.
ACORN Housing Corp. of IL
ACORN Housing Corp. of MO
ACORN Housing Corp. of PA
ACORN Institute
ACORN Law For Education, Representation,
And Training
ACORN Management Corp.
ACORN National Broadcasting Network
ACORN Services
ACORN Television In Action For Communities
ACORN Tenant Union Training And Organizing
Project
ACORN Tenants Union
Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
American Environmental Justice Project Inc.
American Home Childcare Providers Association
American Institute for Social Justice
Arizona ACORN Housing Corp.
Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc.
Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
Austin Organizing and Support Center
Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
Boston Organizing and Support Center
Broad Street Corp.
California Community Network
Chicago Organizing and Support Center
Chief Organizer Fund
Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
Citizens Action Research Project
Citizens Campaign for Work, Living Wage &
Labor Peace
Citizens Consulting, Inc.
Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
Citizens for Future Progress
Colorado ACORN Housing Corp.
Crescent City Broadcasting Corp.
Desert Rose Homes LLC
Dumont Avenue Housing Development Fund
Elysian Fields Corp., Inc
Elysian Fields Partnership
Fifteenth Street Corp.
Floridians For All PAC
Franklin ACORN Housing
Greenville Community Charter School Inc.
Greenwell Springs Corp.
Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant Organizing
Council (HOTROC)
Houston Organizing And Support Center
KABF Radio
KNON Radio
Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center Inc.
Living Wage Resource Center
Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
Massachusetts ACORN Housing Corp.
Metro Technical Institute
Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
Montana Radio Network
Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp.
Mutual Housing Association of New York Inc.
National Center for Jobs & Justice
New Mexico Organizing and Support Center
New Orleans Community Housing Organization
New York ACORN Housing Company Inc.
New York Agency for Community Affairs Inc.
New York Organizing and Support Center
Organizers Forum
Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs
People’s Equipment Resource Corp.
Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
Project Vote
SEIU Local 100
SEIU Local 880
Service Workers Action Team
Shreveport Community Television
Site Fighters
Sixth Avenue Corp.
Social Policy
Southern Training Center
St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
St. Louis Tax Reform Group
Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
Texas ACORN Housing Corp. Inc.
Wal-Mart Workers Association
Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
Working Families Association
Parts of ACORN’s organization are subsidized by our tax dollars. ACORN has been riddled with corruption including the embezzlement of $5,000,000 by Dale Rathke. Conservative Blogger Michelle Malkin has reported on this and the lack of reporting from the liberal media.
TheWashington Examiner has also reported on the extensive tax troubles of ACORN. Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com reports that ACORN owes $2,300,000 in taxes.
What must be understood is that the ACORN organization is driven by a radical far left agenda with all intentions of toppling the US welfare system by utilizing "Maximum Eligible Participation" Solution (MEPS). The Sub-Prime mortgage crisis was evidence that this type of tactics are working to destroy the capitalist system that has brought the United States to the top of the World. The beltway elites know that ACORN is a thoroughly corrupt entity but refuse to combat its tax payer fleecing mechanisms due to political reasons.
Below are examples of Saul Alisnky Tactics-No Morals/No Ethics
1.Alinsky style partisan voter registration efforts
Maxine Waters promotes Obama at ACORN function
2.ACORN taking advantage of the people that they are trying to protect
3.ACORN hiring criminals
criminals
4.ACORN’s voter fraud
Vegas voter fraud
Kansas City voter fraud
CNN reports
CNN’s Lou Dobbs reports
more fraud on drug bust
ACORN registers 13 year old
Lou Dobbs report
5.ACORN’s corrupt community corrosion:
Prostitution Scandal: Boston
Prostitution Scandal: Los Angeles
Prostitution Scandal: San Bernadino
Prostitution Scandal:Philidelphia
Prostitution Scandal: San Diego
Prostitution Scandal: New York
Prostitution Scandal: Washington DC
ACORN employee’s flashes camera
6.ACORN’s involvement with Service Employees International Union (SEIU):
HCAN
Wade Rathke now of SEIU talking about healthcare and ACORN’s involvment
Glenn Beck reports on ACORN “rent a mob”
7.Glenn Beck exclusive interview exposing ACORN
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
This is what your politicians in Washington have allowed
ACORN will continue to use tax payer money to topple the American capitalistic system. The Alinsky tactics it employs is highly effective in misleading the low income community in supporting its bully tactics and fraudulent activities. With the help of SEIU and other union groups, ACORN acts as a political arm of the Progressive Democratic Party reminiscent of many radical movements of the Bolshevik revolutionary army led by Vladimir Lenin.
As a critical part of “The Machine”, ACORN has implemented the radical strategy of Cloward and Piven. Its roots began with a founding from a former Communist SDS member Wade Rathke and they stretch into the Congress and the White House. With an alliance with the SEIU and other left wing groups, ACORN will succeed in its implementation of the Cloward and Piven strategy if we do not stop them. We must stand up against this non-American group and stomp out groups affiliated with its fraudulent agenda. We must expose them by demanding a thorough audit of their books to see where our tax money is going. Then we must protect the low-income communities by getting rid of the criminals in the ACORN organization by removing the insidious thorn of Cloward and Piven and Saul Alinsky.
