Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Minneapolis rabbi to testify, impacted Golden Valley resident Rose McGee among those attending.
Wednesday morning, State Reps. Mike Freiberg (DFL-Golden Valley), Karen Clark (DFL-Minneapolis) and Raymond Dehn (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced new legislation to end a controversial practice used by mortgage lenders during foreclosure proceedings. Southwest Minneapolis rabbi Michael Adam Latz of the Shir Tikvahsynagogue will be among the testifiers, according to a post on his Facebook page. A copy of Latz's testimony is posted above as a PDF. "Our protest is to demand that those of our friends and our neighbors, our congregants and our family members who work hard and play by the rules don’t have the rules changed along the way so the banks are favored at the expense of our homes and our communities, because this is not what democracy looks…
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Minneapolis-area congressman also joined a bus tour calling for foreclosure fairness.
Friday, Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) kicked off the start of the 113th Congress by announcing Rep. Keith Ellison's (D-MN) appointment to a deputy leadership position in the Democratic caucus. As a newly minted Chief Deputy Whip, Ellison joins 9 other leading congressmembers in being the eyes, ears, and hands of Hoyer and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “I am excited to work with Whip Hoyer and the rest of the Whip team to continue the fight for good jobs for working families," Ellison said in a written statement. "It is more important than ever that we work together to protect the benefits middle class families rely on.” Whips are typically charged with keeping party members onside and enforcing discipline during contentious …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Community, religious groups campaigning against "unfair" foreclosures.
Saturday, Lynnhurst's Shir Tikvah synagogue will play host to the first stop on a metro-wide bus tour protesting what groups behind the tour call "unfair" foreclosures. Rep. Keith Ellison and other community leaders will lead a rally at Shir Tikvah at 12:50 p.m. in support of several homeowners facing foreclosure around the Twin Cities. The tour culminates in a concert by local hip-hop greats Brother Ali and Toki Wright. "The housing crisis has forced hundreds of thousands of families out of their homes, and, as the result of predatory loans, decimated the wealth of African-American and Hispanic communities, causing some to call it one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time," read a written statement from tour organizers Occupy …
Patch Brain
10:16 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Are we all in sympathy with Rose McGee? Occupy activists always seem to strike a nerve; perhaps there is a history of the group Occupy Homes MN behaving in an unhonorable manner. New groups experience rapid metamorphosis of membership, leadership, participation, focus, and tactic over time, especcially as their relationship with the media and public changes. I'd be interested to look at the … more ›