Sign the Petition for the NATO 5!

  • Drop all charges against the NATO 5 and all anti-NATO protesters!

  • Protesters are still being held in Cook County Jail in Chicago. Release them all now!

Click here to sign the petition.

The charges against the NATO 5 and the others are false. All these prisoners urgently need your solidarity. Please sign our petition. Share it with your family, friends and coworkers. Signing the petition will generate a direct email to:
— Illinois State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez
— Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart
— Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, and
— Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel,
and several other public officials, demanding all charges against the NATO5 be dropped.

Protesters at anti-NATO march in Chicago May 20, 2012.

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June 21: National Day of Action Against PNC Bank

http://www.moratorium-mi.org/

http://www.facebook.com/events/436134209741753/

From Detroit’s Moratorium NOW Coalition:
4 PM, Thursday, June 21
535 Griswold, Detroit

Demand that PNC Return the Cruz Family Home
Demand that PNC Reverse the Foreclosure of Jerome Jackson

A national Day of Action targeting PNC Bank on behalf of the Cruz family from Minneapolis, MN has been called and demonstrations around the U.S. will be demanding that PNC Bank keep the Cruz family and families across the country in their homes. On June 19, Alejandra and David Cruz and supporters will be traveling to PNC’s Pittsburgh headquarters to hand-deliver their modification documents and demand a meeting with CEO Jim Rohr! The demonstrations will coincide with the Cruz family’s arrival in Pittsburgh on Thursday, June 21.

The Cruz family, whose home went into foreclosure when PNC Bank mishandled an online payment. Although PNC executives have acknowledged their error and repeatedly told Cruz supporters that they are working on a solution, their actions have shown the opposite. They have refused to work with the family, instead working with Freddie Mac and the city of Minneapolis to launch a series of costly police raids against home, resulting in 23 arrests in less than a week.

Alejandra and David Cruz are active community members in the Twin Cities who have tirelessly advocated for the DREAM Act and educational equity for immigrant students.

Jerome Jackson, a paraplegic since the age of 14, is facing eviction from a specially modified, wheelchair-accessible home that he has lived in since 2004. CLS, funded by Wayne County, urged Jerome to move into the home, with a promise to pay the bulk of the mortgage payment, since he was on a fixed income. Then in 2009, CLS reneged on their agreement, causing the foreclosure and threatened eviction.

NC Bank, and now Fannie Mae (which insured the loan and bought the home at Sheriff’s auction), have refused to work with Mr. Jackson and have filed a complaint to evict him from his home.

More info on the National Day of Action: http://occupyourhomes.org/

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Milwaukee, June 23: Stop Foreclosures & Evictions, Moratorium NOW!

http://www.facebook.com/events/243874812379114/?ref=ts

Community Organizing Meeting

Tens of thousands of residents in Wisconsin have been illegally foreclosed on and evicted by the banks. Since 2007 in Milwaukee over 20,000 families have been tossed out on the street by the banks. Come to this meeting to join the growing international peoples’ movement to stop the foreclosure and eviction crisis that the banks and other members of the 1 percent have created. Join members of Occupy Wisconsin and other labor, community, student and faith-based organizations from throughout the Midwest fighting to take our communities back! Fight for a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions!

Saturday, June 23, 2012 / 1-4 p.m.
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998 hall
734 N. 26th Street, Milwaukee, WI
Free and open to the public

More info:
414-395-0665
wibailoutpeople@gmail.com
www.wibailoutpeople.org

Housing Is A Human Right!
Bail Out The People Not The Banks!

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Support the Cruz Family: Tell PNC Bank, ‘No More Foreclosures & Evictions’

Please show your support for this incredible family by taking five minutes to make two phone calls: one to PNC Bank, the other to Freddie Mac and the report the results to us.

  • Fred Solomon, PNC Bank Vice President at (412) 762-7544: Demand that CEO Jim Rohr meet with Alejandra and David to renegotiate their family’s mortgage
  • Brad German, Freddie Mac PR executive at (703) 903-2437: Demand that Freddie Mac works with PNC Bank to get the family back into their home immediately.

Then report your results here: http://act.engagementlab.org/call/occupyhomes_cruz_call/

Take five minutes to call Fred Solomon at PNC Bank and Brad German at Freddie Mac.

We shall not be moved,

Nick Espinosa

Organizer, Occupy Homes MN

June 23-July 1 Emergency Protests Against the Growing Threat of War

https://nationalpeaceconference.org/

Hands Off Syria and Iran!

End the Drone Wars!

We Need Jobs, Education and Healthcare, Not Endless War!
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The growing threats of war against Syria are alarming.  Recently, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Russia not to get in the way of US backed efforts to force out the government of President Assad.  The corporate media is making every effort to overwhelm us with calls for another “Humanitarian War”.  The drum beat of aggression against Iran grows daily as well. The coup by the U.S. funded and trained Egyptian military, overturning the first popularly elected government in recent history is another ominous warning. The threat of new war is real while US drone attacks are an expanding form of anonymous war.

During the period from June 23 through July 1, there will be demonstrations, vigils and forum around the country to protest the growing threats of war.  Please join the protests in your city or organize one in your city.