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 | TUESDAY, AUGUST 20th, housing, labor, and community activists from across the midwest will converge on Chicago to expose Bank of America, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac as 'Partners in Crime'. 2:00 pm, Housing Rights rally at 3811 South Wabash Then, buses leave for the Loop 3:00 pm, Rally and Press Conference at Bank of America, 135 S. LaSalle. Then, march through the Loop! Sponsored by Detroit Eviction Defense, UAW local 600, UAW local 551, United Steelworkers Summer of Solidarity Tour, UE Western Region, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Stand Up Chicago, Centro Autonomo, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Bank of America and Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac have played the biggest roles in violating the human right to housing and driving cities like Chicago and Detroit further into debt. Since the start of the housing crisis, millions of people have been foreclosed on and evicted since the start of the housing crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac invested in most of these mortgages, but unlike the banks that trashed the economy, these government-sponsored mortgage investors won't reduce principal to help struggling families or donate vacant properties to non-profit organizations. Instead, Fannie and Freddie continue to gamble on the toxic mortgages whose failure led to their being bailed out by the federal government in 2008. As a mortgage servicer and bank, Bank of America is one of the biggest foreclosurers in Chicago and across the country. Former employees recently revealed that it is company policy to pay bonuses to foreclosure assistance specialists who lie to homeowners and deny loan modifications. Pushing thousands of families is not a severe violation of the human right to housing, but also leads to more vacant properties in already hard hit neighborhoods. Bank of America has also swindled Chicago, Detroit, and other cities across the country with toxic loans that seemed like a sound investment but has driven cities and school boards further into debt, serving as a justification for layoffs, budget cuts, and the planned closure of fifty public schools in Chicago alone. |
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Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago
(Rev. Willie T. Barrow Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)
Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project
Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA
"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com
Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project
Listed in 2012 Edition Who' Who In Black Chicago
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
(Office) 773-268-6900 or direct 773-392-0165
The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"
Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago
(Rev. Willie T. Barrow Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)
Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project
Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA
"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com
Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project
Listed in 2012 Edition Who' Who In Black Chicago
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
(Office) 773-268-6900 or direct 773-392-0165
The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"
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