SUN Fights To Stop Mortgage Foreclosures

SUN Fights For Mortgage Foreclosure Assistance

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15 SUN members and staff attended the 36th annual National People’s
Action conference
in Washington, DC April 12-14th. The big issue for SUN, as well as
for over 500
grassroots neighborhood leaders from across the country was to stem
the tide of mortgage
foreclosures that are hitting our neighborhoods.

SUN and NPA were busy this weekend. Protests at the White House, the
Federal Reserve
and the home of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke all demanded
the same thing:
work as hard to help the homeowners and neighborhoods, as you did
when you bailed
out Wall St. investment bankers and hedge fund managers.

The crowd pictured below is talking with a top aide to Federal
Reserve chair Bernanke
on the front steps of the Fed. As a result of our protests, the Fed
has agreed to schedule
a meeting representatives from NPA affiliated groups.

“Fight, Fight, Fight! Housing Is A Human Right!”

"Fight, Fight Fight! ‘Cause Housing Is A Human Right!"

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SUN member Peter Polikarpenko is pictured at a protest organized by
National People’s Action in
Washington, D.C. on April 14th. Groups gathered in front of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development and demanded to speak with the acting director of HUD,
former Syracuse mayor
Roy Bernardi.

Bernardi’s chief aide (former Syracusan Jim Parenti) came down and
talked with the group’s leaders.
National People’s Action has several major demands for HUD:

An immediate moratorium on public housing demolitions.

Create a plan for the future of low-income public housing.

Reverse plans to take away the rights of tenants to have a voice in
public housing policy.



SUN On The Bus

SUN On The Bus

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At the National People’s Action conference held April 12-14 in
Washington, D.C.
SUN folks participated in protests that focused attention on the
mortgage foreclosure
crisis that is causing families to lose their homes and neighborhoods
being hit with
large numbers of vacant and abandoned houses.

Pictured on the bus heading to a protest at the home of Federal
Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke are Mercedes Bloodworth, Eddie H. Brown, Brenda Williams,
Barbara Devoise and Shaniqua Stanley.