Posted on 02/19/2009 7:22:48 AM PST by yankeedame
Be a Home Defender
"Some things are worth fighting for, and I think your family and your home are two of those things." -Baltimore ACORN Foreclosure Fighters Co-Chair Louis Beverly
The foreclosure crisis lies at the very heart of the broader economic collapse. The glut of foreclosed properties on the market forced housing prices into a tailspin, and banks loaded up with mortgage-backed securities and complex derivatives, unable to value or sell these assets, stopped lending to each other and the credit markets froze up, triggering the broader economic morass. A broad and successful economic recovery is impossible without directly addressing the record foreclosure rate that lies at its heart.
If we do not take any action, Credit Suisse predicts that there will be between 8 and 9 million foreclosures in the next four years, at a potential cost to the economy of $702 billion.
ACORN members are launching a Homesteading effort as part of ACORN's comprehensive foreclosure campaign. ACORN is working with its membership and activists around the country to build "Home Defender Teams." These teams will be prepared to mobilize on short notice to peacefully help defend a family's right to stay in their homes until a fair solution to the crisis is put into place by the new Administration. We are recruiting allies and elected officials to support our efforts and call for a full and comprehensive solution to this crisis.
Are you willing to be a Home Defender in your community?
If you live in one of these Tier 1 cities, your help is needed with the initial roll-out of the Homesteading campaign. Trainings will take place the second week of February and the kick-off events will be held the 3rd week of February.
Tuscon, Ariz.
Oakland, Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Contra Costa County, Calif.
Orlando, Fla.
Baltimore, Md.
New York, N.Y.
Houston, Texas
These Tier 2 cities will conduct training and kick-offs in the weeks following the Tier 1 events. (If you live outside these areas we need your help as well! We are creating Home Defenders Toolkits that people can use locally to save the homes in their communities.)
San Mateo County, Calif.
Denver, Colo.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Wilmington, Del.
Broward County, Fla.
Boston, Mass.
Flint, Mich.
Detroit, Mich.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Raleigh, N.C.
Durham, N.C.
Albany, N.Y.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dallas, Texas
If you live somewhere else, you can still help!
For a second there I thought they were going to be defending “Castle Doctrine” legislation.
Silly me - knowing their makeup of thugs and criminals, they’d be on the opposite side of any such thing.
Obama’s red shirts coming to your town soon!
I remember the squaters of the ‘70s.
The only area of job announcement increases is in community-based non-profit activist jobs. Just head over to craigslist.com and click on “non-profit” jobs in your area.
So this is sending a bunch of Acorn thugs to prevent a bank or mortgage company from repo’ing a home? What we’ll end up with is a bunch of squatters living in crack houses.
Coming to Oakland, eh? The SF Chronicle has run many articles about the heartbreak of foreclosures in outlying cities (Antioch, etc.). It would be interesting to attend one of these meetings. Heads up for Freepers.
Red? That would fit.
However, brown would be more “historical”,
and they were generally wearing light blue before the election.
Red must be their winter color.I saw a woman on Cavuto who
said owning a home was a Right!
Interesting what those on the left consider to be “rights”.
Those of us with the “constrained” (ie, reality) view of human nature understand that no one has ANY right that places an involuntary burden on another person.
ACORN got over $2 Billion of your stolen money for their anti-American positions to make sure the left takes over as dictators so what is new?
Me too. I was thinking 00 buck 12 gauge when I read the headline. Silly me...
were they non the weathermen who were bombed out of the house?
One poor woman in the So Cal area had her house empty for a short time between rentals. Illegals moved in and she couldn't get them out. It took a couple of years and thousands of dollars in court costs. I think she eventually got them out.
And in the case you describe it wasn’t the eeeevil bank or mortgage company, it was an individual landlord who was a woman. Imagine if it was an eeevil corporation?
With the Stimulus money, the Acorn Mobs will have more resources than local law enforcement. Change is coming.
Well silly me, I was thinking the best way to keep your home was to pay for it. I take it this organization isn’t doing anything to help people pay their bills, they just want to intimidate the banks from foreclosing. How nice. Obama certainly has spread his Chicago style thug culture to other parts of the country- do you think this is the change we could all believe in?
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