Acorn

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Hey y'all!
I'm applying for a community organizing job with ACORN Canada, but want to approach the whole thing with a critical eye. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding critical material about them from a left perspective. There's lots of OBAMA!ACORN!SOCIALISTSWILLTAKEOURGUNS! shit floating around the right-wing blogosphere, but, obviously, that's not really what I'm looking for. I am familiar with their relationship to the SEIU (of whom I'm not particularly fond), and corruption issues at the top of ACORN in the states, but . . .
Well, anyway, I'd love some help, either in terms of pointers to resource of personal stories.

Thanks!

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Bump. C'mon, this is an organization that has been doing working class organizing for decades, has taken significant political positions, and attracted a lot of heat in mainstream politics (like, enough that it basically got all of its funding from everyone cut). Some of y'all must have opinions/analysis!

[subcp]

There was a time when ACORN canvassers tried to unionize with the IWW.

http://www.iww.org/history/campaigns/acorn

Which is quite odd. Alinskyite liberalism on the one hand, a red-baited, syndicalist union on the other.