Tell Congress to put home-owners interests first before the banks. SIGN THE PETITION:

Tell Congress to put home-owners interests first before the banks. SIGN THE PETITION:

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Started by Ani L. Schwartz
To Members of the House and Senate:

The housing crisis is at the heart of the economic meltdown America faces today. There is no long-term solution to the nation’s problems without legislation aimed at keeping families in their homes. Judicial modifications of home mortgages is a modest fix that will prevent hundreds of thousands of families from facing the devastation of foreclosure. This sensible legislation will help working and middle class families stay afloat in challenging times. We urge our elected representatives to stand up for homeowners by supporting H.R. 1106 and its counterpart in the Senate.

The banks have received their bailouts; it’s time for working homeowners to be put first.
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Tell your Representative to support H.R. 1106.
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From: Robert Greenwald
Sent:
Sunday, March 01, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: "Billions of dollars to the banks, yet we're the ones that are homeless."

1. Watch the video
2. Sign the petition
3. Call your Congressional Representative
"We were trained to mislead borrowers," says a mortgage broker in Orange County, California. "There were people who were club promoters or even drug dealers that found out it was more profitable to run a mortgage shop than to do whatever they were doing."

Take a look at our video about the subprime mortgage lending racket
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On Tuesday, Congress will vote on whether or not to level the playing field between the banks that caused the collapse of the housing market and struggling homeowners. Representative John Conyers has introduced legislation in the House that authorizes judges to require banks to reevaluate overpriced mortgages of bankrupt homeowners.

Sign our petition to let Congress know that you support Conyers' bill, H.R. 1106. Then, call your Congressional Representative and ask him or her to vote for it.

Conyers' proposal is a simple, modest fix that will help keep hundreds of thousands of families in their homes. This bill is a win for every homeowner in America. By helping stem foreclosures, it will help arrest the decline in home values for everybody, not just those who are struggling to make payments. President Obama supports the bill and has called on Congress to pass it. The banks and the lobbyists that represent them oppose the bill with a passion.

These are the same banks that started this recession in the first place by hawking worthless subprime mortgage loans to naïve or unsuspecting borrowers. Joan Adams of Irvine, California lost her home to foreclosure, and is now living out of a motel by the airport. "There's no one out there to help," Joan says. "Billions of dollars to all the banks for bailouts for something they caused, and yet we're the ones that are homeless."

The banks have had their handouts. Now it's time for struggling homeowners to be put first. Tell your Representative to support H.R. 1106.

Yours,
Robert Greenwald, Leighton Woodhouse, Tara Conley
and the Brave New Foundation team

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