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The Senate passed comprehensive Financial Reform today. It’s a major win for Main Street over Wall Street - congratulations to the Alliance to Develop Power in Massachusetts for pushing Scott Brown (R-MA) do the right thing and vote for the bill. |
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A coalition of clergy and community members from NPA and the South Austin Coalition released a report condemning Bank of America as Chicago’s biggest forecloser today. |
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National People's Action staff and affiliates led workshops and actions at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum that was held in Detroit from June 22-26th.
New York City AIDS Housing Network/VOCAL, Good Old Lower East Side, and Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition brought community leaders from New York City to the Social Forum to share stories from their campaigns, learn about other organizations and issues, and act in solidarity with the people of Detroit who face disinvestment on a massive scale |
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Edda Lopez is in the fight of her life with Bank of America and she needs your help.
Last year, Edda entered into an agreement with her mortgage company at the time, Wilshire. She qualified for a federal program, the Home Affordable Modification Program, and locked in her monthly payment at $2100/mo. Or, at least she thought. |
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Americans brought the spirit and message of the Showdown in Chicago to Washington D.C. today, with actions at the U.S. Treasury and Goldman Sachs’ Capitol Hill headquarters. Check out photos and videos from the events. |
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Yesterday, Goldman Sachs announced it would donate $500 million to help small businesses recover from the recession and finally apologized to the American people. |
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank recently released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which further illustrates the need for more detailed disclosure from banks on the quality of the loans originated. |
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After thirty-five years of well-funded efforts to privatize most public services, it is harder than ever to get collective solutions onto the political agenda. Take the case of public housing. Like so many other programs that were designed to address social needs, public housing has been under-funded, poorly managed and generally set up for failure. Public housing residents have been stigmatized and marginalized. |
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James Mumm of National People's Action is featured on this Movement Vision Lab podcast talking about the changing economic and political context as well as what "second wave organizers" are doing to transform the organizing movement, with a focus on personal balance and collaboration. |
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Congressional Allies Frank and Waters sent a letter to Secretary Shaun Donovan of HUD calling for a one-year moratorium on the demolition and disposition of public housing. |
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Media Briefing for Community Meetings with the Federal Reserve - Watch the webinar... |
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George Goehl was interviewed by Christopher Hayes of The Nation, in an article titled Naming the Enemy. "Most Republicans aren't waking up every day thinking, 'How do we kill banking regulation?'" says Goehl. "Most people who listen to Rush Limbaugh aren't waking up thinking about how do we kill banking regulation. But the people with the deep pockets who have power in DC are thinking that." Read on... |
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"One of the things I personally experienced while searching for a place to use the Housing Choice Voucher was being told out outright by landlords and property owners that they do not accept Housing Choice Vouchers. Although there are laws that are supposed to protect tenants from being discriminated against based on the source of income, this is a widespread practice in DC even though the District passed a law prohibiting it. There needs to be a provision added to SEVRA that expressly prohibits discrimination based on source of income at the national level." Read the testimony
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"Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules," a new report from the Applied Research Center, tells the stories of people of color who are disproportionately affected by the recession. |
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On May 14th, 40 community leaders and staff from the PICO National Network and National People’s Action came together in Chicago to further form and define an alliance to develop local and national strategies to hold banks accountable. |
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At the foundation of our economic crisis are dangerous lending products that were allowed to infect our communities and our economy like a virus. |
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Americans want common sense reform while banks continue business as usual |
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Direct action community organizing is alive and well in America. This was on full display at the annual National People’s Action conference in Washington, DC on March 21-23. Over 600 community activists from 20 states descended on the nation’s capital with clear messages: Save Our Homes and Hold Banks Accountable! |
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Without a doubt, 2008 will be remembered as the year when the destructive impact of subprime lending and foreclosures shook the very foundations of our nation’s economy and became front page news around the world. The mortgage crisis emerged after years of irresponsible home lending made by many of our nation's largest financial institutions and banks – including Wells Fargo & Company. The era of fast and easy profits from unregulated lending came to an abrupt end as over-leveraged lenders faced a wave of defaults from their over-burdened borrowers.
Read the report here. |
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Letter to Paulson: "Develop a program for banks receiving federal funds to issue broad-based loan modifications for families facing foreclosure!" |
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NPA ED George Goehl awarded fellowship from the Rockwood Leadership Program: Leading from the Inside Out. |
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As the President, the Congress, Federal Reserve and Treasury come to the American people asking for an unprecedented $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout, I’m reminded of all the times over the last ten years that community organizations made up of everyday people came to them and warned of the dangers of subprime lending. |
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The federal government proposed a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street while homeowners facing foreclosure are left on the sideline holding the bag. |
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Community organizers have always made and will continue to make our communities and our democracy stronger. |
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National People's Action 2008 held on April 12 -14 in Washington DC was a great success. Each year community leaders ascend on Washington DC to have their voices heard and this year was no exception. More than 500 people from across the country went to our nation's capital to demand action of the people, by the people and for the people. To download the NPA08 Post-Conference Report, please click here. |
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Members of NPA met with Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, to urge him to turn the |
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NPA publically opposed the proposed acquisition of Countrywide by Bank of America at the Chicago Fed |
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The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Museum are pleased to announce Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of finance from the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown, an exhibition by designer Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) that will open September 9 at 5:30 PM and run through December 21. An installation of models, photographs, videos, and drawings, Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsing capital and liquidated buildings, exploring the relation between finance and architecture. |
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The National Housing Justice Movement achieved another significant victory last week when Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Barney Frank sent a letter to HUD Secretary Steven Preston calling for a moratorium on the demolition and disposition of public housing nationally. The Housing Justice Movement has worked closely with Waters and Frank's office over the past year to implement a mortorium and pass comprehensive public housing reform legislation. |
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Over 200 people attended NPA's second Housing & Banking Summit in Chicago on December 5 - 7, 2007. |
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Few government safety net programs have as unfavorable a reputation as the federal public housing program. Within mainstream consciousness, the phrase “public housing” conjures up stock images of bleak, crime-ridden projects. |
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