... get a mix of folks who have stayed with organizing for all of their lives, folks who left but were greatly influenced by their organizing experience (Nicholas Von Hoffman, Barack Obama, and many others ...

... a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee who represented East St. Louis, and Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). Elected to the Senate in November 2004, Obama had a particularly ...

... Toni Foulkes, a longtime ACORN community leader in Chicago lays out some of the grassroots back-story to the now media-saturating rise of the Barack Obama. (Illinois ACORN Head Organizer Madeline Talbott ...