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EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement
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Posted on 10/26/2011 9:11:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement

By Jana Winter

Published October 26, 2011 | FoxNews.com

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.

The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.

NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; barackhusseinobama; bhoows; jonkest; obama; occupy; occupywallst; occupywallstreet; ows; owsfake; owsfraud; owslist
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Surprise!
1 posted on 10/26/2011 9:11:49 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Why not combine the OWS idiots AND the ever growing Obamaville tent city residents? What a crowd THAT would be!

Obama has helped create them BOTH.


2 posted on 10/26/2011 9:19:39 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mortrey

Brilliant plan! :)


3 posted on 10/26/2011 9:49:32 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Our favorite Marxist, moral-less community agitators are at it again. No wonder Obama approves.


4 posted on 10/26/2011 9:59:26 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Sub-Driver

They probably provided the witness intimidation staff.


5 posted on 10/26/2011 10:01:51 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Sub-Driver

If you have any doubt that Obama is connected to the “occupy protests”, take a look at this article. He is still the community organizer. Accept the community is Wall Street. And Atlanta and Baltimore and Boston and Los Angeles and San Diego, and so on.
Barack Obama not only participated in #OccupyChicago protests – He led them.

Yesterday Joel Pollack at Big Government reported on how Barack Obama led #OccupyChicago style protests in Chicago in 1988.
From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:

PHOTO EVIDENCE – Barack Obama LED #OccupyChicago Protests – Circa 2000

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/photographic-evidence-barack-obama-led-occupychicago-protes-circa-2000/


6 posted on 10/26/2011 10:27:50 AM PDT by Jonah Vark (Any 5th grader knows that the Constitution declares the separation of powers.)
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To: Sub-Driver

War is coming, and we’re not the ones bringing it. It’s not going to be pretty, so you’d better prepare now because one minute after is no time to start...


7 posted on 10/26/2011 10:46:36 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: Sub-Driver
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8 posted on 10/26/2011 11:44:10 AM PDT by b4its2late ("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8")
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To: Sub-Driver
Not really. The Feds failed to proscribe individuals when the baned ACCORN.
9 posted on 10/26/2011 11:46:28 AM PDT by Domangart
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To: Domangart

What a POS O is.


10 posted on 10/26/2011 11:53:57 AM PDT by safetysign
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To: Sub-Driver

"Surprise Surprise"

11 posted on 10/26/2011 12:09:41 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

“paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour...”

-—> “Captitalism” at work, huh, Acorn?


12 posted on 10/26/2011 12:09:49 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Sub-Driver

OCCUPY WALL STREET - WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

13 posted on 10/26/2011 12:09:52 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head
Nice job, Jeff
14 posted on 10/26/2011 12:14:32 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Sub-Driver

FOX?

i didn’t think they were still interested in doing actual news

hmph. another random act of journalism


15 posted on 10/26/2011 12:35:34 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Jeff Head
What is being "occupied" is the White House...by a Muslim-Marxist Kenyan Usurper and his fellow street agitators & Communist henchmen.


16 posted on 10/26/2011 12:37:52 PM PDT by twister881
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To: twister881
Precisely.


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17 posted on 10/26/2011 12:46:26 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: AlanGreenSpam

‘Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour...’

Finally, Obama’s economic job policies are starting to kick in!


18 posted on 10/26/2011 1:05:16 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Fast & Furious: Holder gone by the end of the year.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m shocked! Really! I just cannot wrap my head around that!


20 posted on 10/26/2011 2:11:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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