Petition campaign generates 30,000 messages; Protest Sunday 10 a.m. in NYC to demand: STOP the Foreclosure Auction
Sunday, March 8, 2009
10:00 am
The Jacob Javits Convention Center entrance,
between 35th St and 36th St. and 11th Ave. in Manhattan
In just over 48 hours, more than 30,000 messages have been
sent to NYC Mayor Bloomberg, the NYC City Council, the
Jacob Javits Center, and the Real Estate Disposition
Corporation (REDC)demanding the cancellation of a
foreclosure auction planned for this Sunday.
Response has been overwhelming - people are outraged that
the very same banks who have received hundreds of billions
of dollars in bail out money are throwing poor and working
people out of their homes.
If you haven't signed the petition yet, go to:
*** http://www.bailoutpeople.org/nonycauction.shtml
Then, join us in front of the auction site on Sunday
morning at 10:00 a.m. (at The Jacob Javits Convention
Center entrance, between 35th St and 36th St. and 11th
Ave. in Manhattan). Demand that the auction be called off;
It is obscene that people are gathering to profit off of
the misfortune of working people who have lost their
homes. We need a bail out for working people, and an end
to all foreclosures.
Sunday's protest will kick off a new season of mass
mobilizations targeting Wall Street predators, leading to
a National March on Wall Street on April 3 and 4 (see
http://www.bailoutpeople.org for more information). More
than 50 organizing centers across the country are working
to publicize and organize transportation for the event,
which will kick off with a rally in front of the Stock
Exchange on 1:00 pm on April 3.
*** Following foreclosure auction protest, come to Union
Square at 1 p.m. for a "Bail Out Women and Our
Communities" rally and 2 p.m. march sponsored by
International Working Women's Day '09 Coalition. Marchers
will go to Bank of America, Kimmel Building (site of
recent NYU takeover) and Triangle Waistfire Memorial.
Everyone is invited.
