Business as Usual Disrupted at Hennepin County Sheriff's Foreclosure Sale

[annm4peace]

check out the cool video:
http://twincities.indymedia.org/2009/mar/business-usual-disrupted-hennepin-county-sheriffs-foreclosure-sale

Activists, including many foreclosed-upon and homeless residents, converged on Minneapolis City Hall Wednesday to demand that Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek take action to end the foreclosure crisis in the county. After boisterously protesting outside the room where a sheriff's foreclosure sale was guarded by deputies, three activists entered the room, and PPEHRC national organizer Cheri Honkala was shoved out by a deputy after attempting to bid on a property.

Then, the group went across the building to Stanek's office to demand a meeting. After deputies were uncooperative, the activists moved in, filling the room while others waited with the media outside. After about two hours, a meeting was held between a chief deputy, County Commissioner Gail Dorfman, and five activists representing the organizing bodies: PPEHRC, ACORN, the Economic Crisis Action Group, the IWW, and Homes Not Jails. The officials promised a meeting with Stanek within two weeks.

[Deja Q]

1. Reasonably well paying jobs would eliminate foreclosures, bankruptcies, et cetera...

:shrug:


Nobody is asking for a 7- (or even 6-) digit salary, but all those $9~$12-hr jobs can't cut it for families. Not with this country's cost of living, which hasn't exactly dropped along with the wages either.