{"article":{"id":113777,"heading":"ACORN National Convention Last Weekend","author":"Avery Ray Colter","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:24","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:59:01","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>I am from the Contra Costa County Chapter of ACORN. This county ranges from just north of Berkeley to points inland, and includes both unincorporated townships like my own home of Bay Point and industrial cities built to exploit the convergence of rail lines and the Sacramento River delta. <br><br> At our Bay Point office, the Saw of Justice is proudly displayed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"avery@infoasis.com","link":"http:\/\/www.acorn.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now held its national convention last weekend on the UCLA campus, gathering in Pauley Ballroom and surrounding buildings, and also going out in the field for voter registration drives and marches, including to Wells Fargo downtown to sevre them with a civil action concerning predatory lending practices.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/07\/533_saw_of_justice.jpg","filesize":"12.3 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/07\/113777.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/07\/533_saw_of_justice.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/07\/533_saw_of_justice.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":113778,"heading":"We prepare at the Bay Point office for our bus trip down to LA","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/534_bpacorn.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/534_bpacorn.jpg"}},{"id":113779,"heading":"Our young activists strike a defiant pose outside Sproul Hall, where we lodged.","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/538_casey_kaela.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/538_casey_kaela.jpg"}},{"id":113780,"heading":"Gathering on the campus.","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/544_gathering.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/544_gathering.jpg"}},{"id":113781,"heading":"EDUCATION FOR ALL!","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"video\/mpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/589_ed_for_all.mp4"},{"id":113782,"heading":"A show of force in Pauley Ballroom","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"video\/mpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/592_in_the_bleachers.mp4"},{"id":113783,"heading":"A salvo of candy flies overhead, complients of the Minneapolis chapter","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"video\/mpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/593_candy_salvo.mp4"},{"id":113784,"heading":"Registration Pickup","article":"My voter registration crew waits for pickup at 66th and Raymond, one of several crews dropped into South Central to seek out new voters.","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/597_registration_crew.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/597_registration_crew.jpg"}},{"id":113785,"heading":"The Voice of ACORN!! A little breakfast Monday morning before heading out.","article":"","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:47:33","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/607_voice_of_acorn.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/607_voice_of_acorn.jpg"}}],"comments":[{"id":113786,"heading":"The March on Wells Fargo","article":"Monday Morning, June 28th, we headed out to downtown, gathering first outside city hall.","author":"Avery Ray Colter","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-07-03 15:50:17","modified":"2005-08-15 02:59:01","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/613_dropzone.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/07\/613_dropzone.jpg"}},{"id":113904,"heading":"Scumbags....","article":"Still union busting?","author":"solidarity","parent_id":113777,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-07-09 17:18:35","modified":"2004-07-09 17:18:35","fileurl":""}]}