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 ARC's Executive Director, Rinku Sen is featured in a USA Today piece about the demise of ACORN.
Here is an excerpt:
"Former ACORN members and employees said Tuesday that they are dismayed by news that
the group is disbanding amid money woes and scandal after 40 years of
community activism.
"I'm very sad that it all had to come to this," said Mary Keith, who worked for ACORN's Cleveland chapter for six years. "Without ACORN, I don't know how effective we're going to be, but we're still going to fight" school closings and foreclosures in her neighborhood, she said. The announcement that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is folding came six months after conservative activists pretending to be a pimp and prostitute released videos showing ACORN workers giving them tax advice.
Rinku Sen, executive director of the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and activist group, said ACORN's collapse is a loss for minorities and the poor."
For the full story, visit the USA Today site here . |
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RINKU SEN
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