ACORN behind Occupy Wall Street protest in Boston

[Chris_]

Among the goals is to get major banks to stop preying on the poor and people of color, according to the organizer of a Boston offshoot of an Occupy Wall Street rally. The event, promoted as Take Back Boston, was organized by dozens of local community groups that claim big banks have a pattern of pushing “bad loans on people of color and the poor.” As a result of the “predatory lending,” foreclosures have skyrocketed in urban communities, the organizers say.

Among the Take Back Boston organizers is a spinoff of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Amid a massive fraud scandal and a series of criminal probes, ACORN supposedly dismantled but the reality is that it simply changed its name. In fact, Judicial Watch recently published a special report (“The Rebranding of ACORN”) about the organization’s transformation into various spinoffs and affiliated groups.

In this particular case, ACORN’s Boston office simply rebranded into New England United 4 Justice. Same crooked group with the same general mission and president, but a different name. Headed by Maude Hurd, the former president of ACORN and ACORN Housing, New England United 4 Justice promotes “social justice” for “low and moderate income families.” The group also seeks to educate the general public about social justice issues and the needs of poor and middle class families.

Judicial Watch

Grassroots, my ass.

[CG6468]

Say it ain't so! They're no longer in existence, are they (according to blammo)???

[thundley4]

Soros has his hand in this too.

[Janice]

I think the 0'marxist and his ilk were hoping this 'Occupy Wall Street' gang to be the lefts version of our tea party.

[DefiantSix]

I think the 0'marxist and his ilk were hoping this 'Occupy Wall Street' gang to be the lefts version of our tea party.

It is.  Unfortunately, leftists are infinitely more violent when it comes to their politics, and thus there the comparison between the two groups ends.

The TEA Partiers want REFORM of a corrupt system.  The OWS idiots want REVOLT/REVOLUTION, and a forcible tearing down of the existing structure.