Solidarity with Rosemary Williams! Phone calls needed
As Indymedia and others have been reporting, the direct action occupation of Rosemary Williams' foreclosed house is ongoing and has now entered its sixth day. So far, the cops haven't raided, but the general expectation is that they will soon.
We urgently need to stop that from happening and keep the protest going until GMAC agrees to negotiate in good faith!
One strategy to make this is happen is to call on the elected officials who claim to stand with people like Rosemary, not the banks and corporations, and demand that they take action to intervene.
Rep. Keith Ellison makes this claim all the time, despite his justifications of forking over millions and millions in taxpayer dollars to those same banks and corporations. Last September, in an editorial published in the Star Tribune, Ellison wrote,
We cannot let Wall Street fail, because if we do, Main Street fails as well ... How we respond is critically important. Serious action is needed -- not just for Wall Street, but for homeowners, too. I support government intervention to rescue our economy, not to bail out Wall Street ... We will not stabilize markets if millions of homeowners continue to lose their homes.
Rosemary Williams is one of those millions, and Ellison needs to be standing with her. He has the position and influence to call off the dogs, and that's exactly what he should be doing now ... what he should have done already.
Please call Rep. Ellison's office and demand he live up to his rhetoric. Claiming to oppose foreclosures is not enough. Rosemary is being thrown off the block she's lived on for over 50 years due to corporate greed, and Ellison is nowhere to be found. Please call his office now!
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