Brave New Films and ACORN Release Video Attacking Vote Suppression

Brave New Films and ACORN Release Video Attacking Vote Suppression

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) released a video today, produced by Brave New Films. This video calls attention to both the concocted Republican issues of voter fraud and the Republican coordinated attempts at voter suppression.

This video, which will be widely distributed via the web, is part of an ongoing campaign by ACORN to set the record straight. The United States has the lowest rate of voter participation of any western nation. Over the last 18 months, ACORN has waged a voter registration campaign, which successfully helped enfranchise 1.3 million new voters. Recently the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican party and some sensationalist members of the media, have been on a weeks-long campaign to discredit ACORN over bogus allegations of "voter fraud." This video examines both the skewed media attention and the real story of ACORN's voter registration program. It also aggressively calls attention to the ongoing campaign of suppression, which affects far more voters than anything recently covered by the mainstream media.

ACORN (http://www.acorn.org/) is holding screening house parties in 17 cities around the country, including: Washington, DC, Boston, Springfield, MA, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Hartford, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Bridgeport, Detroit, Flint, Twin Cities and Charlotte.

The video is available online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNgMKPV9xQ

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Source: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

CONTACT: Brian Kettenring of Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN), +1-727-692-7215, flacornho@acorn.org

Web Site: http://www.acorn.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNgMKPV9xQ

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