Resisting the meltdown and home foreclosures from the bottom-up
Via:
” Across the country, working people are fighting back with eviction and foreclosure resistance. As Howard Zinn explains in A People’s History of the United States, this tactic helped save homes during the Great Depression. This resistance prompted government-imposed foreclosure moratoriums and led to the introduction of federal New Deal programs in 1933.
Throughout the past year, the Bank Tenants Association, organized in Boston by City Life / Vida Urbana ( www.clvu.org ),has resisted foreclosures. By taking direct action and blockading foreclosed homes, they have succeeded in forcing banks to renegotiate terms. In other cases, homeowners were allowed to pay rent after a foreclosure rather than be evicted only to have the house sit empty.
In Detroit, Moratorium NOW! ( www.moratorium-mi.org/ ) has succeeded in preventing a foreclosure and prevented evictions of tenants in foreclosed rental properties.
And here in the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle Solidarity Network (www.seattlesolidarity.net) has had successes in related struggles. In June, they successfully helped tenants win their legally entitled relocation assistance from their landlord when the Green Lake Motel was shut down.
As news of these wins spread, more communities are standing together to fightback for a real economic rescue—from the bottom up.
Related Link: www.nwcommonaction.org“
February 9th, 2009 at 5:53 am
While I feel for the people who have lost their homes, they have no one to blame but themselves. You should NEVER live above your means. I don’t want to bail out ANYONE including BIG BUSINESS because of their financial mistakes. What ever happen to personal and corporate responsibility.