BofA Invasive Tactic in Foreclosures Draws Scrutiny

Don’t think for a minute that this could not happen to you.  This is much more prevalent than you can imagine.

NYT break-in storyThe New York Times – by JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

Barry Tatum returned to his home in Chicago in December to find that his front and back doors had been torn from their hinges, leaving his possessions exposed to the frigid winds that whipped through his neighborhood.

Terrified that he had been robbed, Mr. Tatum, who had fallen behind on his Bank of America mortgage, raced inside only to discover an unlikely source of the break-in, he Continue reading

Detroit is Organizing – Moratorium NOW!

Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs

Detroit-Bankruptcy-Un_RasmOn the Fifth Anniversary of the Federal $700 Billion Bank Bailout

Saturday, October 5, 2013, Detroit, Michigan

A Call for an International Peoples Assembly Against the Banks and Against Austerity

Weekly Organizing meetings, Mondays, 7 PM, 5920 Second Ave., Detroit

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Editorial: Obama Believes “Wall Street is our Main Street”

Editorial Comment
Posted By Dale Parsons
August 26, 2011

yes we canRemember Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” victory speech from Chicago’s Grant Park on Election Night 2008?  Nearly three years later, what’s happened to the hope and promise of that November evening?  For millions of American families struggling with foreclosure, it’s become nothing more than empty words and disappointment from an Administration that believes “Wall Street is our Main Street” and “foreclosures are good for the economy.”  Their half-assed attempt to alleviate the foreclosure crisis, HAMP, has proved to be nothing more than a cruel

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