Dominican ACORN members address issues in the U.S. and their homeland

ACORN members from the Dominican Republic play an important role in local and national ACORN activities in the United States.

Dominican ACORN members formed the ACORN Dominican Council (ADC) in 2002 primarily to work on issues affecting immigrant communities in the United States.

ADC members are also very interested in seeing ACORN organize neighborhood groups in low-income communities inside the Dominican Republic. ACORN Dominican leaders have made two trips to the Dominican Republic to meet with community and labor organizations and to the groundwork for ACORN’s future efforts in the country. The connection that ACORN members have to family and communities provides the opportunity to create a powerful organization to improve the lives of working families in both the United States and the Dominican Republic.

In 2004, ACORN Dominican Republic Council collaborated with the Dominican civic organization, Participacion Ciudadana, to monitor Dominican elections in the United States and thus allow Dominican nationals living abroad to vote for the first time. Dominican members served as election monitors on sites in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, further strengthening ties between ACORN members and communities in the Dominican Republic.