ACORN and the Downfall of Our Banks

We collectively allowed the ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) seeds to be planted years ago; and the harvest is now ready. Even the neocons get it.

“>EAUThe Robin Hood Foundation funds ACORN while the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation gave Robin Hood Foundation a $9,859,453 community development grant in 2000.

Robin Hood’s Board of Directors

Robert Pittman, Chair

Partner, Pilot Group, LLC

Lee S. Ainslie III, Vice Chair
Managing Partner, Maverick Capital Management, LLC

Dirk Ziff, Vice Chair
Chairman, Ziff Brothers Investments

Victoria B. Bjorklund
Partner, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett

Scott Bommer
President, SAB Capital Management

Peter F. Borish
Chairman and CEO, Computer Trading Corporation

Tom Brokaw
NBC News

Geoffrey Canada
President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone

Maurice Chessa
Director, Bedford Stuyvesant–I Have a Dream Program

Steven A. Cohen
Chairman and CEO, S.A.C. Capital Advisors, LLC

Glenn Dubin
Co-Founder and Managing Member, Highbridge Capital Management

Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children`s Defense Fund

Jeffrey R. Immelt
Chairman and CEO, General Electric Co.

Paul Tudor Jones II, Founder
Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investment Corporation

Peter D. Kiernan III
President and Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners

Kenneth G. Langone
Chairman and CEO, Invemed Associates, Inc.

Mary McCormick
President, Fund for the City of New York

Doug Morris
Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group

Daniel S. Och
Senior Managing Member, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group

Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress

David W. Puth
Head of Inv. Research, Sec. Finance, & Trading Worldwide, State Street Corporation

Larry Robbins
Founder and CEO, Glenview Capital Management

Alan D. Schwartz

John Sykes
Media executive

Harvey Weinstein
Co-Chairman, The Weinstein Company

2008-10-20