A broad cross-section of Metro Milwaukee residents and others from Fondulac, Racine, Chicago and Detroit participated in a “Stop Foreclosures and Evictions” meeting Feb. 25 at the Center Street Library in Milwaukee. Many members of the Occupy Wall Street movement including the Occupy Coalition in Milwaukee, participated as did union members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
The meeting began with various announcements including honoring Black History Month and a reading of poems by people’s poet Eric Jefferson.
Following this Jerry Goldberg, a people’s attorney and a leader of the Moratorium Now! coalition in Detroit, gave a presentation on how the banks and other capitalist financial institutions are responsible for the foreclosure and eviction epidemic that continues to sweep the United States. In Milwaukee alone there have been over 20,000 foreclosures since 2007, most in African American and Latino/a neighborhoods. Goldberg closed with a call for those present to join the growing movement that is fighting for a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. He invited everyone to come to Detroit for a March 31 “National Conference For a Moratorium on Foreclosures & Evictions.” http://nationalmoratorium.org/
The next meeting of the WI BOPM is March 5: http://www.facebook.com/events/378569655506069/?ref=ts
- Jerry Goldberg of the Moratorium Now Coalition in Detroit, speaks at a ‘stop foreclosures and evictions’ organizing meeting sponsored by the WI Bail Out The People Movement in Milwaukee, WI Feb. 25.
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