Help Make Baltimore City a Foreclosure & Eviction Free Zone
Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009
MAKE BALTIMORE CITY A FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION FREE ZONE
Sign the ONLINE PETITION and Call on Baltimore City Council and Sheriff John W. Anderson to Stop Foreclosures!
Help Make Baltimore City a Foreclosure & Eviction Free Zone
Community activists in Baltimore are now at a critical juncture in the struggle to stop foreclosures. With your help we can win an important victory. Please help by urging city council to do the right thing.
After picket lines, press conferences, letters and petitions calling on the Baltimore city sheriff to follow the example of the sheriffs of Wayne County (Detroit), Cook County (Chicago) and Philadelphia who have declared halts on foreclosures, activists have learned that Sheriff Anderson is willing to take such a stand if Baltimore City Council directs him to do so. Please help make Baltimore a foreclosure and eviction free zone by sending the message below to the Baltimore City Council, with copies to the Mayor, the Maryland Congressional Delegation, the Maryland Legislature, Sheriff Anderson and the media, urging the councilors to take action now and do the right thing!
SIGN ON TO THE ONLINE PETITION AThttp://www.bailoutpeople.org/baltforeclosurespetition.shtml
Donate to the campaign at http://www.bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml
Send the following message to the Baltimore City Council, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, Baltimore Sheriff John Anderson, the Maryland Congressional Delegation, the Maryland legislature, the Baltimore Sun and members of the national and Baltimore media:
To: Baltimore City Council
CC: Mayor Sheila Dixon, Maryland Legislature, Maryland Congressional Delegation, Sheriff Anderson, Local and National Media
Dear Baltimore City Council members:
I sincerely commend each and every one of you for passing important resolutions calling on Congress to declare a moratorium on a national level, for holding investigative hearings, and for all of your hard work on this issue.
But at this moment you have both a special opportunity and a responsibility to take specific and concrete actions that will immediately impact the lives of entire families and neighborhoods who are threatened by the foreclosure epidemic.
We have learned both through individual council members and through Sheriff John Anderson’s Lieutenant, Samuel Cogen, that the city’s sheriff’s office is willing to halt foreclosure action if it is directed to do so by the Baltimore City Council.
Our communities are in a state of total emergency — joblessness and budget cuts are wounding us all. Boarded up houses and torn apart families threaten the well being of our city.
It is unfair that the bankers have received billions of dollars while so little has been done to help workers and the poor. Until we can stop the hemorrhaging—and turn this around—we urge our representatives to take a crucial step that will allow us the time to figure out broader solutions.
Pass a bill and resolution as swiftly as possible to direct Sheriff Anderson to declare a moratorium on conducting foreclosure action and forcing families out of their homes and into the streets.
Sincerely,
(Your signature will be appended here based on the contact information you enter online)
Initial Signers:
Pastor Heber Brown III; Sharon Black, Network to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions—Bailout the People Movement; Andre Powell, AFSCME Delegate, Baltimore Metro. Central Labor Council AFL-CIO; Kevin Zeeze, Executive Director, Campaign for Clean Air & Clean Politics; Darren Muhammad, Chairperson, Black Think Tank; Maria Allwine, MD Green Party; Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center; Charlie Cooper, Generations for Peace & Democracy; Leo Burroughs, MD Coalition for BGE Reregulation (partial list)
In These New Times 
Peter Hebert said
I have an MBA in finance and marketing, over 20 years in mortgage lending, the secondary market, and real estate. I develop courses and teach continuing education credit classes for Maryland’s licensed real estate agents.
I 100 percent support all efforts to end foreclosures and evictions, because this crisis was 100 percent of the financial sector’s making. 99 percent of the media reporting on the topic is disinformation. I was on the inside. I know. I also fully support the any and all means necessary approach that people must do to fight back. Moreover, every city and state needs to find a basis to sue and financially dismantle the financial sector until there is never again a too big to fail bank of any kind in the United States.
Darrell Benson said
Where did this go…nowhere. Its is 2011 now and its business as usual. Banks got bailed out and PAID BACK all the money to the govt. Contrast that to these deadbeat tenants and ‘homeowners’ who after being given aid and re-writes, still cant afford to pay the mortgages.
Lesson learned is that no matter what society, you have to take responsibility and pay debts. With all due respect, changing laws wouldnt change behavior. Live within your means. thats the moral.