New book says ACORN will be back

Like the villain of a bad horror movie, ACORN is planning to resurrect itself.

From POLITICO:

ACORN, the community organizing group which collapsed earlier this year under the weight of a furious conservative assault, aims to reconstitute itself under a new name after the midterm elections, according to a new book on the group.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, as it is formally known, could not survive the embarrassing videos produced in 2009 by guerilla journalist James O'Keefe that appeared to show ACORN workers advising a would-be pimp and effectively dissolved into its local chapters.

But strong local ACORN chapters swiftly regrouped under new names, like the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and New York Communities for Change. Those groups "will retain ACORN's commitment to building national power and are beginning discussions" about relaunching a national organization some time after November, John Atlas writes in his sympathetic new history of ACORN, "Seeds of Change."

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