Hey ya’ll there is a Freddie Mac office in New Orleans! This is an excellent opportunity for Solidarity and will be proposed at the June 19 Occupy NOLA GA.


Since April 30, Occupy Homes MN has been working with the Cruz family, whose home went into foreclosure when PNC Bank mishandled an online payment. Although PNC executives have acknowledged their error and repeatedly told Cruz supporters that they are working on a solution, their actions have shown the opposite. They have refused to work with the family, instead working with Freddie Mac and the city of Minneapolis to launch a series of costly police raids against home, resulting in 23 arrests in less than a week.

The city of Minneapolis has spent over $42,429 of public resources to defend the banks’ eviction and keep the family and their supporters out of their own home. http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/06/police_efforts_at_now-foreclosed_cruz_family_home_cost_taxpayers_42429.php

 

Despite ongoing protests, PNC still thinks we’ll go away if they ignore us long enough. It’s time to show them otherwise: on June 19, Alejandra and David Cruz will be travelling along with a team of supporters to PNC’s Pittsburgh headquarters to hand-deliver their modification documents and demand a meeting with CEO Jim Rohr! Occupy Homes MN callsfor a national day of action on PNC to coincide with the Cruz’s arrival on Thursday, June 21.

TUESDAY JUNE 19: caravan: http://www.facebook.com/events/310205149071280/

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20: the Cruz family will make a stop at Freddie Mac’s regional headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday to demand they stop tearing up our neighborhoods with their eviction profiteering.

Atlanta: http://www.facebook.com/events/345327975539867/
Chicago
Cincinnati: http://www.facebook.com/events/135234656614011/
Minneapolis: http://www.facebook.com/events/443066159051838/
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
St. Louis: http://www.facebook.com/events/288991261199740/
Washington, DC

And many more to come! Please, organize an event in your city!

To add your PNC action to the list in solidarity with the Cruz family, contact and people going through foreclosure across the country, contact occupyhomesmn@gmail.com and post your event on the wall.

Follow @occupyhomesMN and search #cruzhome on Twitter.

In the meantime, feel free to flood the inboxes and voicemails of Freddie Mac and PNC execs and demand they negotiate with the Cruz family and give them back their home.

Freddie Mac:
Brad German
Brad_german@freddiemac.com
general press line: (703) 903-3933

PNC:
Fred Solomon, PR director of PNC Bank
412-600-2628, cell
412-762-7544, direct

Diana Reid
Executive Vice President
(212) 527-3946
diana.reid@pnc.com

Romella Haiyder
Vice President Business banker
212-661-2349
romella.haiyder@pnc.com

Sawra Safi
Vice President-Workplace Banking
(212) 210-9910
sawra.safi@pnc.com

Marc Hansen
Vice President Relationship Manager
212-752-6044
marc.hansen@pncbusinesscredit.com

Barbara Lamb
Director of Loans
212-224-4000
blamb@mafb.com

Kevin Madigan
Vice President
212-303-0054
kevin.madigan@pnc.com

Thomas Hyland
Senior Vice President
thomas.hyland@pnc.com
(412) 762-2000

Craig Stillwagon
Executive Vice President
(770) 551-8222
craig.stillwagon@pnc.com

Stephen Shelton
Vice President/Business Credit
(212) 303-0042
stephen.shelton@pnc.com

Parameswar Sivaramakrishnan
Vice President-Business Credit
212-752-6092
parameswar.sivaramakrishnan@pnc.com

Sara Traberman
Vice President
sara.traberman@pncbusinesscredit.com
(212) 223-3925

Alan Tischbein
Senior Vice President-Team Leader
alan.tischbein@pnc.com
(212) 752-6094

Thomas Thompson
Vice President
(212) 223-3925
thomas.thompson@pncbusinesscredit.com

June 4, 2012
Contact:

Occupy NOLA

occupynolapress@gmail.com

On Saturday June 9th Occupy NOLA will be holding a People’s Foreclosure on Chase Bank.


WHAT: People’s Foreclosure on Chase Bank. In solidarity with families across the U.S. resisting foreclosures and evictions, Occupy NOLA is calling on JPMorgan Chase Bank to cease and desist from foreclosing on homes in Louisiana for the duration of the present economic crisis. A spotlight has shone on the nefarious deeds of Chase and other big banks since the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Throwing millions of working families out of their homes is class warfare against the 99%. Bring signs, banners, folding chairs, and barbeque grills to visually demonstrate the ways in which the banks are exploiting our system and profiting from human need.

WHERE: 2200 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA. This branch of Chase Bank is open until 1pm on Saturdays.

WHEN: Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 11:30am

During the first quarter of 2012, 4,552 Louisiana properties were targeted by foreclosure-related notices.  These ranged from an initial notice of default to repossession by a lender.  The lion’s share of these foreclosures were properties being seized from the 99% as result of the economic crisis imposed on them by the investment practices of the 1%.

So come, carry your signs, bring chants, banners, balloons, and most importantly yourself, your friends and family, and anyone you know who is or may be facing a foreclosure.

For more information contact OccupyNOLA (occupynola@yahoo.com) or Mike Howells (howellnow@bellsouth.net).

This action will be discussed at the next General Assembly of Occupy NOLA on Tuesday, June 5 at 7 pm at 2735 C Toulouse Street (just off of N. Broad Street in Mid-City). All are invited to attend.

Occupy NOLA New Orleans, LA

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www.occupynola.net