Ex-ACORN Officials paying OWS Portesters? | #OccupyUnveiled

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At least according to Fox News, EX-ACORN officials are working behind the scenes with #OWS. Some are even suggesting that EX-ACORN officials worked with AdBusters to form the OccupyWallStreet Movement. Former New York ACORN director, Jon Kest, has formed a new group called "New York Communities for Change". In other words, ACORN had a face-lift. The NY Communities for Change is openly supporting the #OWS movement. If anyone remembers the strange links to Obama and ACORN, this may be why Obama has shown support (or at least compassion) for the OWS protests.

The New York Communities for Change had this to say in response to Fox News:

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"Fox News is trying to discredit Occupy Wall Street. New York Communities for Change is a new organization that fights for low- and moderate-income families," the agency said in the online statement, credited to board member Linnette Ebanks. "We don't pay protesters and any monies raised by NYCC's canvass are used in support of our ongoing issue campaigns. Period." (Fox News)

FrontPageMag had an interesting take on this news:

"Evidence suggests that ACORN, the Left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests."  

"Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN has acquired great expertise in manufacturing so-called grassroots protests." 

"Left-wing loan sharks Herb and Marion Sandler​, the founders of World Savings Bank, gave ACORN affiliates close to $11 million to manufacture mobs to protest their competition in subprime mortgage lending. The United Federation of Teachers paid ACORN $500,000 to create a spontaneous uprising against charter schools in Manhattan."

Does this hold water? Can anyone confirm being a paid protester? Can anyone confirm if this is an attempt to discredit the OWS movement? If you wish to remain anonymous, we respect your wishes. A protester reported receiving $10.00 per hour while attending the demonstrations in NY; is this true?


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