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Demonstrate Tues At State of State addrress
Mon, 02/02/2009 - 08:41 — Lou
MORATORIUM
NOW! COALITION TO STOP FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS
23 East Adams,
4th Floor, Detroit, MI 48226
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 1, 2009
Contact: 313-319-0870
DEMONSTRATION AT STATE OF STATE ADDRESS,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009, 6:00 PM AT THE STATE CAPITOL
IT’S TIME FOR GOV. GRANHOLM TO PUT THE SURVIVAL OF THE PEOPLE
BEFORE THE BANKS, DECLARE A STATE OF ECONOMIC EMERGENCY,
AND PLACE A TWO-YEAR MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES,
EVICTIONS, AND UTILITY SHUT-OFFS IN MICHIGAN
It was two years ago that activists with the Moratorium Now! Coalition
first raised to Gov. Jennifer Granholm that she exercise her emergency
powers under Michigan law to place a Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions
and Utility Shut-offs. Had she acted then, tens of thousands of
Michiganders would still be in their homes; our communities would not
have been destroyed with homes in Detroit selling at a median price
of $7,500 in 2008; and countless individuals would not have frozen to
death. Along with the banks and financial interests who have plundered
the people of Michigan, Granholm, through her deliberate indifference,
is fully culpable for the incredible suffering experienced by poor and
working people in our state.
On Tuesday, we will again be demonstrating at the Governor’s State of
the State address. It’s too late for half measures. The
time is now for Granholm to declare a State of Economic Emergency in
Michigan and place a Two year Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions
and Utility Shut-offs. Nothing less will suffice. A two
year moratorium will allow the people of Michigan to survive while the
Obama (2-year) stimulus plan has a chance to take effect. There
is plenty of legal precedent for this action and she knows it.
The question is, who is Granholm going to represent, the workers and
poor, or the banking interests which have been bailed out with trillions
of our tax dollars?
And it is time for the media to end their silence and begin challenging
the governor on her inaction which has destroyed the lives of so many
in Michigan.
Transportation from Detroit to the demonstration at the State Capitol in Lansing will
leave at 4:00 p.m. from the parking lot of the Michigan Center for High
Technology, off Temple between Second and Third in Detroit. Call
313-887-4344 for transportation information.
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