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Flanking Flagstar’s Music Stage at Detroit River Days Festival

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  June 22, 2012 - 11:02 am |
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Rally and Leafleting @ “Detroit River Days,” Friday, June 22, 4pm

A Message for People Heading to Flagstar Bank’s Music Stage:

–Tell Flagstar–
Stop the Eviction of Jennifer Britt’s Family!

Gather @ 4pm
at the Southeast corner of Jefferson Ave. & Beaubien,
next to the Ren Cen / GM Building

March @ 4:30pm
to the Festival entrance near Beaubien at Atwater

Jennifer Britt of Detroit’s Rosedale Park is like thousands of homeowners pushed to foreclosure by economic disaster and personal loss.  Jennifer exhausted her life savings and paid Flagstar more than $45,000 to keep her home after the death of her husband and the loss of her job, but Flagstar refused to modify the mortgage and foreclosed. Jennifer is working again, but Flagstar has sold the mortgage to Fannie Mae, with taxpayers footing the bill. Eviction is imminent.

Occupy will distribute flyers reminding festival goers that Flagstar is not a “community bank,” but is owned and controlled by Matlin Patterson of New York,  a “Vulture Investor,” as Forbes Magazine describes it. Flagstar has confessed to mortgage fraud and has not paid back the taxpayer bailout it was gifted in 2009. It should take back the mortgage and modify the loan to keep Jennifer and her family in their home. Contact us at: DetroitEvictionDefense@gmail.com

Flyer– Rally at River Days v. Flagstar

PR: Demonstrate at U.S. Bank in Detroit

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  June 15, 2012 - 6:53 am |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact 313-680-5508

STOP THE BANKS ROBBERY OF DETROIT – MONEY FOR JOBS AND HUMAN SERVICES NOT THE BANKS — SUSPEND THE CITY’S DEBT SERVICE TO THE BANKS

DEMONSTRATE AT U.S. BANK’S DETROIT OFFICE

Friday – June 15, 2012 – 4 P.M.
535 Griswold St. (Buhl Bldg. at E. Congress, downtown Detroit U.S. Bank

Governor Snyder’s threat this week to turn over Detroit’s $80 million in revenue sharing to U.S. Bank, exposes what the Public Act 4 and Financial Review Team are all about. They are meant to insure that the City’s $16.9 billion ($4.9 billion in interest/profit) gets paid. City jobs and services are to be eliminated so the same banks that destroyed Detroit’s neighborhoods now get first lien on the City’s treasury.

Mayor Bing and the media created a frenzy over the Corporation Counsel’s lawsuit saying it would cause the City to go broke as of Friday, threatening payless paydays for the workers. After the lawsuit was dismissed it came out that what Bing was really worried about was making a $34.2 million bond payment to the banks. Continue reading →

peecharrific:
LOS ANGELES –  Hundreds of Los Angeles protesters prepared for what they believe to be an imminent police raid on their weeks-old encampment Tuesday night as demonstrators with the movement in Philadelphia began marching through the streets following officers’ orders for them to leave their encampment.
live video from NBC LA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa first announced that by 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 21, occupiers would have to leave the encampment they have called home for two months. However, the deadline came and went without a police raid. The eviction deadline did lead half of the encampment to fold up their tents and exit the lawn. He later told the Los Angeles Times he decided to officially pulled the trigger after learning there were children living in the tent city. “The chaos out there could produce something awful,” he told the Times.
The police have to look at how severe the crime is and choose how strictly to enforce municipal codes. Is there a threat to a citizen’s life in the balance? Does this encampment obstruct a required thoroughfare? Perhaps the city can provide an alternate location which would serve the needs? Very few cities have approached Occupy movements with a level head enabling their citizens the right to protest. The movement needs to sit in presence during city hearings and proceedings, demanding to see justice for all is properly served – this is in the CONSTITUTION and we have a BILL OF RIGHTS. These are worth reading by every citizen. How come new citizens know these rights better than naturally born citizens? Because they study them and don’t assume to know them! The view of domestic terrorism keeps coming up – but these people aren’t demanding anything that is counter-productive, and they aren’t endangering lives. Occupy movements are not an assault on rights or freedoms. They are inconvenient for those who choose to follow existing government and corporate agendas, people whom are sometimes referred colloquially as “sheeple”. The 99% are staging a unifying rally in their ranks to regain rights, thought, choice which have been disallowed through neglect and acceptance of the status quo. It is an awakening of the masses.

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  November 30, 2011 - 9:11 am |
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‘Occupy Los Angeles’ Protesters Brace for Eviction