"Mortgage bankers lie and cheat!"
Apr 16, 2008
Sandra Hines of Detroit (center), thrown out of her childhood home a week
before Christmas due to foreclosure, speaks outside Policy Conference of
Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., on April 16. Several hundred
people got up to the door of the hotel where the bankers were meeting, then
picketed for two hours, chanting “Mortgage bankers lie and cheat, people
get thrown out on the street!”
The Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions brought
people, many facing foreclosure, from as far away as Boston, Raleigh and Miami.
Sharon Black, a Baltimore organizer who chaired the rally, pointed out that the
billionaire bankers were in D.C. to lobby for more tax breaks and concessions
from Congress. The network has also organized more than 100,000 messages to
representatives demanding a moratorium on foreclosures.
—Monica Moorehead
