Coalition to stop foreclosures now forming

[eridani]

OCTOBER 24-27: BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE BANKERS!

A CALL TO ACTION
Nationally Coordinated, Local Mass Actions

The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a deep recession or even depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers, along with their counterparts around the world, are giving what’s going to amount to trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people WHILE DOING NOTHING TO RESCUE ORDINARY WORKING AND POOR PEOPLE!

We must stand up and say no to this injustice! NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.

With that in mind, we are calling for Nationally Coordinated Local Days of Action on the weekend of October 24-27.

Endorse - http:// stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/stopforeclosuresendorseo27.shtml

Volunteer/list local activity - http://stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/stopforeclosuresvolunteero27.shtml

Donate - http://www.stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/donate.shtml

Contact Us - http://www.stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/cmnt.shtml

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PLANNING MEETING IN NYC
6:30 P.M. WEDS. OCTOBER 15
SOLIDARITY CENTER
55 WEST 17 ST, 5TH FLOOR
MAIN AGENDA POINT: BUILDING A “BAIL THE PEOPLE OUT” RALLY ON WALL ST. , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
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* During October 24-27, organize marches and demonstrations in front of banks, especially JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank, or at your local Federal Reserve Bank. Organize a teach-in or a public hearing on the Wall Street crisis, etc.

IT’S TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DECLARE AN ECONOMIC STATE OF EMERGENCY AND GIVE DIRECT HELP TO THE PEOPLE--NOT THE BANKS

The following are some of the growing list of emergency measures that people across the country will be raising at protests during the Days of Action:
--Emergency moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions
--No budget cuts in education, healthcare and all social services
--No layoffs, extend unemployment benefits
--No utility shut-offs
--Debt relief for students, poor and working people
--Protect public and private pensions
--Jobs at a living wage


We are asking for grassroots, community and youth organizations, trade unionists, anti-racist forces, the anti-war movement and everyone who's just mad as hell about the "bailout" to both endorse this call, and take ownership of it. Plan actions during this period of time in your cities across the country.

Partial List of Initiators:

Ad-hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
Moratorium Now Coalition To Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (Michigan)
Labor/Community Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions (L.A.)
Service Employees International Union, Local 721
Latino Caucus, SEIU Local 721
Gloria Saucedo, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional
BAYAN USA
NY May 1 Coalition For Immigrant and Workers Rights
Chris Silvera, Secretary Treasurer, Teamster local 808
Brenda Stokely, New York Solidarity Coalition with Katrina/Rita Survivors
La Peña Del Bronz
Trabahadores Por La Paz
Rebel Diaz
Queers for Peace and Justice
Women's Fightback Network (Massachusetts)
Frantz Mendes, President, USW local 8751 (Boston School Bus Union)
Action Center for Justice (North Carolina)
FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together)
Troops Out Now Coalition

Endorse - http:// stopforeclosuresandevictions. org/ stopforeclosuresendorseo27. shtml

Volunteer/list local activity - http:// stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/stopforeclosuresvolunteero27. shtml

Donate - http://www.stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/donate.shtml

Contact Us - http://www.stopforeclosuresandevictions.org/cmnt.shtml

National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
c/o Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St #5C
New York, NY 10011
617-522-6626
www.stopforeclosuresandevictions.org

[autorank]

1. I'll participate locally. k*r THANK YOU!!!!!

:patriot:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Kick, 4th rec, one more DU! n/t

[El Pinko]

3. Sorry, people who bought the bubble deserve to eat it.

I'm all for helping people who are genuinely disadvantaged, but fools who thought that buying at a time when house price were insanely high? I couldn't be more opposed to helping them, nor do I want to prop up the still-inflated house prices.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Cook County sheriff orders deputies to end foreclosure evictions

From the Los Angeles Times
Chicago's Cook County sheriff orders deputies to end foreclosure evictions
From the Associated Press
October 9, 2008

CHICAGO — The Cook County sheriff said Wednesday that he was ordering his deputies to stop evicting renters from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped remove had done nothing wrong.

"We will no longer be a party to something that's so unjust," a visibly angry Sheriff Thomas Dart said at a news conference.

"We have to be sure that when we are doing this -- and we are destroying some people's lives -- we better be darned sure we're talking about the right people," he said.

Dart said he believed he was the first sheriff in a major metropolitan area to stop participating in foreclosure evictions, and the publisher of a national foreclosure database said he probably was right.

(more)

--Los Angeles Times

[1776Forever]

5. This will help some but most don't have jobs to pay for insurance, taxes and mortgage too!

We had to give up our home in Florida because there weren't any jobs that paid more then $8.50 an hour there. With the rising cost of insurance because of the 2004 hurricanes, and the rising taxes it would have been impossible for us to have stayed in our home even with this program.

I do hope that those that can use do so, but there are a lot of us out there that need good jobs to pay for this even with the help!

[Meeker Morgan]

6. So they just get the keep the houses without paying for them ...

... while people with lower incomes (who rent) pay for it?

[eridani]

7. No--mortgages get renegotiated. People have to pay, but at a reduced rate n/t