With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal. The twelve chapters in this volume present the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics. The result is a thorough detailing of ACORN's founding and its changing strategies, including vivid accounts and analyses of its campaigns on the living wage, voter turnout, predatory lending, redlining, school reform, and community redevelopment, as well as a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape.
Bombs, death, and a deadly terrorist have television reporter Bob Christopher at odds with an evil conspiracy. The star anchorman of Los Angeles Channel 3 News had appeared on his last show—as the victim of a terrorist bomb. The shock waves were still rumbling when his accused killer was found dead of an apparent suicide. The terrorist's death should have closed the case. But instead, it opens a nightmarish can of worms when television newsman Bob Christopher can't let bad enough alone and defies the men with money and muscle to focus in on a macabre conspiracy of evil that feeds on human lives and manacles the law.
Collection of four short stories, two set in North America, and two in Australia, dealing with relationships and memory. The author is the literary editor of the 'Canberra Times.' His articles, poems and short stories have been published in magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas.
Traveller? Lover of fireplaces and comfortable chairs? Amateur sleuth perhaps, or natural philosopher? White Lightening and Other Stories From The Writers in Groupis one book you'll want to keep by your side. This compact, pick-up, put-down-anywhere read packs twenty-eight tales between its pages, one for every mood and season. The authors, many award-winners among them, represent a delightful range of experience, sensibility, and expression.Whether fact or fiction, these stories are bound to prove good company--or may we be struck by lightning
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