MORATORIUM NOW: SEN. CLARKE ANNOUNCES NEW FORECLOSURE LEGISLATION

Two-year ‘foreclosure freeze’ will help struggling consumers get back on their feet, keep their homes

Representative Shanelle Jackson has introduced a bill calling for a one-year moratorium on foreclosures

• Get the word out in your area – put out leaflets and posters; write letters to the newspapers; put a notice in your community, union or church newsletter; talk to your neighbors, relatives, friends and co-workers.

• Gather and send in endorsements of the bill from your group – union, neighborhood association, minister/church board, student government, etc.  endorsement form    online endorsement

• Get a resolution of support from your city council.
  

• Call, email or write your state legislators (Senate and House) to urge passage of the bill.  Call or email all members of the House and Senate committees on Judiciary and Banking.

• Be on the alert to organize for a massive demonstration at the Capitol in Lansing to demand passage of the bill.

• Become an organizing center in your area for the “MORATORIUM NOW! COALITION to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions.”  Contact the Detroit office to be listed on the website and to get quantities of flyers, etc.

• Donate to build this mass campaign.  Make checks payable to MORATORIUM NOW COALITION and send to 23 E. Adams, Detroit MI 48226.

• Michigan State Senators

• Michigan State Representatives

• House and Judiciary Committee phone numbers
• Endorsement Form
• What You Can Do
• General leaflet (*.doc)
• General leaflet (*.pdf)
  

• Nashville Homeless, Tired of Foreclosures, Reclaim Vacant Government Homes - May 7, 2008
  
  
• Bay Area Letter Carriers Union call for a Moratorium on Foreclosures, Utility Shutoffs & Evictions, May 7, 2008
  
  
• Foreclosure Crisis Deepens Due to Economic Collapse, Jan. 30, 2008
  
  
  
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