Help save a beatnik's house

[UnrepentantLiberal]

Gloria Takla, left, is joined by a group of Occupy protesters at a Chase Bank Branch in Redwood City. San Jose resident Christy Wong, right, has participated in many Occupy events across the Bay Area.

On Thursday, March 1st Come out to support Gloria Takla, one of the 99% fighting to save her home from foreclosure!

What: A Press Event to support Gloria Takla who is facing foreclosure

When: 4pm, Thursday, March 1st

Where: In front of the San Mateo County Government Center, 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063

Who: Members of the community group ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Occupy Redwood City, Occupy San Jose, SignOn.org and the 99%

Over the past five months Gloria Takla has been waging a fight to save her home from foreclosure by JPMorgan Chase. Gloria has led a community organizing campaign, with the support of members of the community group ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Occupy Redwood City, Occupy San Jose and SignOn.org, which has four times turned out over 50 people to demonstrations to support her cause, seen hundreds of people make calls into Chase's executive offices, generated hundreds of petition signatures through SignOn.org and asked elected representatives, Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Sen. Diane Feinstein, to call Chase executives in support of Gloria. Gloria is a leader in the fight to win “Principal Reduction Now!” She also tells a compelling story of being steered into a predatory loan, putting up $150,000 of her money as a down payment and facing foreclosure as a result of Wall Street's deceptive lending practices.

Here are 5 things you can do to help win justice for Gloria:

1.) Turn out to support Gloria on Thursday, March 1st

2.) Email this invitation to your friends and family

3.) Email this link to Gloria's online petition to your friends and family http://signon.org/sign/tell-jamie-dimon-to-give?source=s.em.cr&r_by=2726915&mailing_id=2267 .

4.) Call Jamie Dimon at 212-270-1111 and tell him to give Gloria Takla a Loan Modification

5.) Check out Gloria telling her story on youtube

[pinboy3niner]

1. Occupy Our Homes!

This is one area in which Occupy has had a lot of success--stopping foreclosure auctions and defending against foreclosures/evictions of families from their homes.

That's where I met DUer Fire Walk With Me--doing an anti-foreclosure action with Occupy L.A. and ACCE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2439266#2443416

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. I sure wish he'd at least post to this group.

Both of you are among the best Los Angeles has to offer.

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Apologies if I don't post much on homeowner occupation threads

I've been involved in two such actions (one foreclosure resistance, one anti-eviction) and they were incredibly stressful and heartbreaking over a multi-year period... I'm still nominally involved in one...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. Understandable.

I'm sure every one of these is heartbreaking.