Demands for a Foreclosure Moratorium
“There’s clear evidence that the current foreclosure system is broken and unreliable,” said Michael Calhoun, president of the Washington-based Center for Responsible Lending. Blacks have suffered most from the disaster, first from being steered to predatory loans, and now from “not getting the help they need to get a loan modification.” The problem, says Calhoun, is that “the same companies that couldn’t get the foreclosure paperwork right, are the same people that can’t get the loan modifications right.”
Unique Housing Conference in Harlem
The Harlem Tenants Council’s recent conference at New York City’s Schomburg Center was organized around the principle that a housing strategy must also relate to conditions in employment, education and general non-white political empowerment. The Obama administration’s policy on public housing is “conceptually about privatization, just like the charter schools,” said Mimi Rosenberg, of the Legal Aid Society. In order to resist the power of the rich and their friends in government, said Mark Torres, of the Coalition to Save Public Education, “we have to go into the projects. The projects are our fortresses.”
Obama’s Deficit Commission: The Looming Threat to Social Security
Why did President Obama create a deficit reduction commission that will surely call for an assault on Social Security, when its recommendations are released on December 1st? “Obama is trying to get some Republican votes,” says Doug Henwood, editor of the Left Business Observer. “It’s also his own conservatism.”
Private Capital Dominates PBS
The idea that public television is a bastion of the Left “has been a joke, for years,” says Peter Hart, of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. FAIR recently completed a study of corporate influence in, and even direct ownership of, Public Broadcasting System programming.
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