The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Act Out! [146-p2] - Puerto Rico Part Two: Road Blocks to Recovery, Those Clearing a Path & Lessons to Learn
This week on Act Out! Special part two episode about Puerto Rico.
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Bankers Are Buying Baltimore’s Debt, Charging Crazy Interest – Then Taking Families' Homes
Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group and L.A.-based Imperial Capital bought up hundreds of small debts — from unpaid water bills to delinquent property taxes — and could take property worth tens of millions of dollars if families can’t pay.
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Taking Over, Taking Back: Breaking Doors Down to Open Homes Up
The short documentary by filmmakers Jessica Murphy and Elissa Nadworny highlights the work of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, a coalition of homeowners, renters and houseless people organizing to take over vacant, bank-owned houses.
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Resisting Foreclosure: Rising Up for a Dream Called Home
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener shows how black Americans have historically been dispossessed of home, property and adequate work as a de facto economic policy.
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Banker Used $400k in Bailout Funds To Buy Luxury Condo
Missouri bank executive Darryl Layne Woods spent nearly $400K of TARP bailout funds to purchase a ritzy Florida pad.
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The Backyard Shock Doctrine
The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
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Occupy Homes Resistance Grows Against Foreclosures in Minneapolis
Activists spearheaded an initiative called the Eviction Free Zone for neighborhoods in Minneapolis, where activists hunker down in foreclosed properties, warding off attempts by police and banks to change the locks.
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Fannie Mae Evicts Family in Foreclosure, Then Installs Armed Guards
Since January, Fannie Mae has spent nearly $50,000 of what is essentially public money to keep one home empty.
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Elderly Veterans Facing Foreclosure
Veterans are increasingly losing their homes to foreclosure.
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Eight Months On, Still Fighting Foreclosures
One of Occupy Wall Street’s enduring legacies is the Occupy Our Homes movement, which successfully managed to protect families from evictions when the government didn't seem overly concerned by an epidemic of foreclosures.