Reports: 'Grassroots' Ferguson protesters demanding their paychecks from organizers

Brett T. | 8:18 PM on May 19, 2015

Weasel Zippers reported last night that some of the more famous faces from the #BlackLivesMatter protests in Ferguson, Mo., could be found at the offices of Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment (MORE) last week, upset that they hadn’t received checks promised for their “grassroots” efforts.

#Ferguson protesters occupying MOREs office at the WCC over allegations that MORE has taken money from the movement check @search4swag TL

— Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) May 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/JoePrich/status/599043532427427840

Others began tweeting the #cutthechecks hashtag.

@bassem_masri #Cutthechecks

— Search4Swag (@search4swag) May 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/MillennialAU/status/598910440442204161

https://twitter.com/keenblackgirl/status/598912067035271169

https://twitter.com/mollyrosestl/status/598923917529485312

https://twitter.com/ms_tjp/status/598942796574162945

And guess how much @organizemo was raising in their new campaign? Yep, 14k. Odd, huh? No mention of Josh. #cutthecheck

— Fantasia (@Fantasiaj14) May 15, 2015

Can you break this down? @organizemo @search4swag pic.twitter.com/UFDKg4iDbx

— Marissa in STL (@STLSouthards) May 14, 2015

@search4swag @organizemo pic.twitter.com/2BRZ3jTSGk

— Marissa in STL (@STLSouthards) May 14, 2015

The Gateway Pundit and FrontPage Mag also picked up on the story today, exploring the roots of MORE.

MORE is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010. That ACORN state chapter reconstituted itself in December 2009 as MORE under orders from ACORN’s national headquarters. President Obama used to work for ACORN and he represented it in court as a lawyer.

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The unpaid rent-a-mob operatives complain that MORE stiffed them the same way ACORN did to hired protesters throughout its 40 years of radical left-wing rabble-rousing. The ACORN network’s leadership was always predominantly white while its foot soldiers were mostly non-white, a fact that caused tension within the criminal community organizing outfit.

@KatiePavlich @DefendWallSt So, just another ACORN operation…

— rmack2x (@rmack2x) May 19, 2015

@KatiePavlich @DefendWallSt.. and the media trys to play them off as some kind of organic grass roots movement.

— Mark Hampton (@hambonelv) May 19, 2015

@KatiePavlich @DefendWallSt The protestors making more per month than many of the business owners/cops they were protesting? Lovely.

— Sean Dysinger (@SeanDysinger) May 19, 2015

https://twitter.com/justme1496/status/600669380792307712

https://twitter.com/MichaelHuff52/status/600714168510078976

https://twitter.com/Dragonfly80L/status/600717192674582529

@KatiePavlich @DefendWallSt Baha! Must be rough when capitalist donations are your only hope for socialist utopian dreams. Rot in jail.

— Dixie Red Rocket❌ (@DixieRedRocket) May 19, 2015