"TLA" means "three letter acronym", but the others are real people or organizations. However, there's too much here to look through but others are willing to give it a go.
* Rethinking Schools, Joyce Foundation, Deborah Leff, etc. from 1996: link
* ACORN's 12th Annual Legislative and Political Conference: includes appearances by Bill Gates Sr., several far-left speakers, and a "take over" of a Jackson-Hewitt office: acorn.org/index.php?id=2022
* Illinois ACORN state chair Ted Thomas led a field of 12 candidates in the race for 15th ward alderman on the Windy City’s southside in the February 23 municipal election. He faces the second-place finisher in a spring run-off. Endorsed by Congressman Danny Davis, the SEIU State Council, State Senator Barack Obama and the Chicago Sun-Times, Thomas is running on his record as chair of the community-labor Chicago Jobs & Living Wage Campaign that won Living Wage ordinances in Chicago and Cook County last summer after two years of opposition by Mayor Daley. (link)
* Something about Ayers and Obama funding - not "founding" - ACORN (link). Includes an unwatched-by-me 10 minute video that may or may not have new or accurate information.
* An Obama/Ayers/Dohrn timeline (link)
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