Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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August 18, 2009
Rosemary Williams and supporters to take demands to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak
On Wednesday, Aug. 19, 11:00 a.m, Rosemary Williams, her supporters and neighbors will gather outside Minneapolis City Hall at 350 S 5th Street (south side, across from the light rail station). From there, we will be taking our demands to Mayor R.T. Rybak's office.
We will demand that Mayor Rybak use his powers to allow Rosemary to keep her home. Mayor Rybak has connections with the powers that be in the city, statewide and nationwide - with the non-profit and business communities, with the movers and shakers in the DFL and, of course he has discretion over the Minneapolis police department. But most important, as mayor, he should be doing everything in his power to avoid another empty foreclosed home blighting the city.
Since August 7, hundreds of people have come out to support Rosemary Williams to save her family home. Ms. Williams has lived on the block for 55 years. She has spent a year speaking out against foreclosure and evictions on every level, always noting that she has not been fighting just for herself but others in the same situation. Ms. Williams is proving to be ray of hope to other families facing foreclosure around the country.
GMAC, the main servicer of Ms. Williams's mortgage, tried to evict her bodily from her home on Aug. 7. They tried to buy her off with $5000 and an order to "leave quietly." They offered for her to be renter…in the home GMAC took from her. Ms. Williams has been declaring for year that she intends to keep the home in the family. And the community is behind her.
MN Coalition for a People's Bailout - Mick Kelly: 612-715-3280, Linden Gawboy: 612-296-5649
MN Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign - Cheri Honkala: 267-439-8419, Ann Patterson"612-940-1040
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August 18, 2009
Rosemary Williams and supporters to take demands to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak
On Wednesday, Aug. 19, 11:00 a.m, Rosemary Williams, her supporters and neighbors will gather outside Minneapolis City Hall at 350 S 5th Street (south side, across from the light rail station). From there, we will be taking our demands to Mayor R.T. Rybak's office.
We will demand that Mayor Rybak use his powers to allow Rosemary to keep her home. Mayor Rybak has connections with the powers that be in the city, statewide and nationwide - with the non-profit and business communities, with the movers and shakers in the DFL and, of course he has discretion over the Minneapolis police department. But most important, as mayor, he should be doing everything in his power to avoid another empty foreclosed home blighting the city.
Since August 7, hundreds of people have come out to support Rosemary Williams to save her family home. Ms. Williams has lived on the block for 55 years. She has spent a year speaking out against foreclosure and evictions on every level, always noting that she has not been fighting just for herself but others in the same situation. Ms. Williams is proving to be ray of hope to other families facing foreclosure around the country.
GMAC, the main servicer of Ms. Williams's mortgage, tried to evict her bodily from her home on Aug. 7. They tried to buy her off with $5000 and an order to "leave quietly." They offered for her to be renter…in the home GMAC took from her. Ms. Williams has been declaring for year that she intends to keep the home in the family. And the community is behind her.
MN Coalition for a People's Bailout - Mick Kelly: 612-715-3280, Linden Gawboy: 612-296-5649
MN Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign - Cheri Honkala: 267-439-8419, Ann Patterson"612-940-1040
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