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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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Minneapolis Community Declares Foreclosure and Eviction Free Zone
We will no longer be held hostage by the tyranny of the financial institutions that crashed our economy. We have come together as a community to voice our collective demands, and will not move from our homes until they are met.
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Foreclosure Fraud Revealed: Your Mortgage Documents Are Fake!
Amid last decade's foreclosure fraud, banks resorted to a mass fabrication of mortgage documents because they could not legally establish true ownership of the loans when trying to foreclose.
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Federal Government Sues Bank of America Over $850 Million Investor Fraud
The U.S. is suing the Bank of America for investor fraud over the sale of $850 million worth of residential mortgage-backed securities.
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Global Power Project, Part 9: Banking on Influence With Morgan Stanley
The bank that has committed a raft of fraud, illegal foreclosures, energy price fixings and food market speculations took in more than $107 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds in the bailouts.
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8 Ways Privatization has Failed America
The myth that privatization of public services benefits most Americans is an outright lie.
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Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
Do taxpayers want to have their public money in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? San Francisco may be leading the way toward creating a municipal bank that is in the public's interest.
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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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Revealed: How Cities Are Seizing Underwater Mortgages Through Eminent Domain
Officials have discovered that they can use their eminent domain power to buy underwater mortgages at their current market value and resell them to homeowners at reduced price and mortgage payments.