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ACCE, Under a New Name, Uses Familiar Strategies
3 June 2010
A new organization called the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) joined local leaders, including City Councilman Richard Alarcon, residents and housing activists to launch a campaign to crack down on foreclosed homes that have been allowed to deteriorate and blight their communities. They walked through a Pacoima neighborhood to highlight blighted home and vowed to press authorities to enforce a new city law that would impose a $1,000-a-day fine on banks and other lenders that allow foreclosed properties to fall into disrepair.
While ACCE is a new community organization, it was formed in January of this year, the core leadership of the organization held leadership positions in the California chapter of ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Long a target of the Republican Party's anger, they resented ACORN's successful voter registration of low income voters-who tended to vote for Democrats, ACORN was successfully smeared last year. A conservative film maker, who liked to style himself as a journalist, aired tape he had taken at various ACORN offices which claimed to show ACORN staffers breaking the law. It got extensive media coverage, especially on Fox News.
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