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Watch Independent lens story on ACORN.
I only saw a part of it but wow, the information is striking.
Really dirty tactics have been going on to undermine our democracy and advocacy groups. The Independent Lens did a film about ACORN , an organization that helps the underserved in the United States and how it was targeted in a defamation campaign. The film investigates what happened in 2009. I did not remember.
From this film, Facebook, diaries and other news media, some names I am aware of now: Milo Yiannopoulos, James O Keefe, Breitbart, Aaron Schlossberg: stuff that I would dismiss as crap. Unfortunately the crap we don’t pay attention to or dismiss as stupid does hurt us.