FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/107023426085123/
FEB. 25 FLYER: https://wibailoutpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/j_goldberg_wi_bopm_feb-_25-2012.pdf
Saturday, Feb. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Center Street Library, 2727 W. Fondulac Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53210
Wisconsin is suffering our worst housing crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Everyone in Wisconsin is being affected by the foreclosure crisis. Thousands are facing eviction and entire communities are being decimated by abandoned and often vandalized homes which drive down property values. The worst effects of the foreclosure epidemic are in the Black and Latino/a communities and especially women and children.
Jerry Goldberg, a Detroit People’s Attorney and leader of the Moratorium Now Coalition, will speak at this meeting about how the banks-in complicity with the federal government-are responsible for the foreclosure epidemic. He will also speak on the immediate demand for a federal moratorium on foreclosures. A moratorium would allow a homeowner facing foreclosure to go to court for an automatic stay to delay the sheriff’s sale. The court would set a reasonable repayment plan based in part on the borrower’s income and ability to pay. The moratorium law would be in effect for a period determined by the people, meaning that anyone in foreclosure at the time the law is enacted, or is placed in foreclosure during that period, could take advantage of the moratorium. Goldberg will also speak on the demand for a moratorium on ‘debt service’ to the banks.
The jobs crisis (unemployment in Milwaukee’s Black community is over 50 percent) will also be addressed with the demand of a federal jobs program based on the model of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930’s.
There will be other speakers from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Wisconsin and other progressive organizations including organized labor.
Bail Out The People Not The Banks!
Moratorium on Foreclosures & Evictions Now!
Federal Jobs Program Now!
Make The Banks Pay!
For more information: www.wibailoutpeople.org / wibailoutpeople@gmail.com
Moratorium Now: www.moratorium-mi.org
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Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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