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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an international collection of autonomous community-based organizations that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues.
In a report released in October 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General concluded that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias (one of nine US attorneys removed in 2006) for political reasons after Iglesias failed to prosecute a New Mexico ACORN chapter. The report said claims that Iglesias was ...
Pages in category "Political advocacy groups in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 374 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Common Cause is a watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., with chapters in 35 states.It was founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, a Republican, who was the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the administration of President Lyndon Johnson as well as chair of the National Urban Coalition, an advocacy group for minorities and the working poor in urban areas. [1]
This transformed the article IV United States territorial court in Puerto Rico, created in 1900, to an Article III federal judicial district court. The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 , frequently called the court-packing plan , [ 6 ] was a legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by President Franklin D ...
AFPI cites the New York Times’s “1619 Project” as “radical political advocacy masquerading as ‘journalism’” and encourages the elimination of public school district boundaries to ...
UnidosUs, formerly known as the National Council of La Raza , is a non-profit, and non-partisan political advocacy group in the United States. [5] Its focus is on reducing poverty and discrimination, and improving opportunities for Hispanics.
The League of Chinese Americans in St. Louis also joined, becoming the third founding chapter of OCA. [3] In 2013, OCA's National Board of Directors passed a resolution to change its name to "OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates" to reflect a more expansive mission to represent the pan-ethnic interests of the community. [citation needed]