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The Beacon Hill Patch is reporting that a group of frustrated local residents staged a protest at the home of Robert Gallery, President of Bank of America Massachusetts.
Volunteers cleaned up and bagged trash that had accumulated at a home where BofA foreclosed on and evicted a young family over a year ago. The home has been vacant and fallen into disrepair since, accumulating fines.
After cleaning up the eyesore, the group took the bags of trash to the local BofA branch, but they were turned away. So they went to Mr. Gallery’s home in the very posh section of Boston known as Beacon Hill and dumped them there, along with their demands.
Demands include that the bank:
Halt all foreclosures and evictions until underwater mortgages can be renegotiated. Stop the crackdown on small business lending. Rescind its proposed mass layoffs and take steps to protect and create Massachusetts jobs. End its board members’ policies that exclude Bay State families from key programs like weatherization.
BTW, how cool is it that we have avenues for micro journalism that allow a story like this to be reported? Considering the underwhelming coverage of the Wall Street occupation protest, if it were not for citizen journalist we might not even know that average Americans are rising up in protest and taking to the streets.
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It’s very coo, Cynthia. ;o) Good on these folks for delivering Trash to Trash.
thumbs up…but it is beginning to feel like the poor, those without the best credit can be duped out of their homes, stolen from (fees, trickery on the statements, out and out lies) and no one really cares. I am so tired of talking to people who have no clue. I will say this, though, my in laws who had sterling credit and just could not believe what I was telling them, despite my showing them the statements, (maybe you just don’t understand those fees…??? Right and neither does the HUD lawyer or the corporate lawyer I consulted), is beginning to experience some of the same trickery on her credit card. They are in retirement and worried about how things will go and after inheriting some money have gotten into debt. They are starting to realize that maybe, just maybe what I have said was true.
every neighborhood should do this,till they get the message
and reccd
Sounds like a very effective remedy. More, please.
That is lovely. Does he have a Romney in the basement too? Switching to a credit union for banking services should be next on our schedules, that will make an impression.
Sounds like “The Boston Trash Party.”
Garbage in…Garbage out.
good one
Recommended.
Bravo !!!
Direct action.
More!!
Now its getting time to organize Squatter Communities in cities and suburbs. If only a few do it, they will be not only evicted, and harshly, but may be jailed. But if tens and hundreds of thousands squat all over the country..it should have some chance of success. Camping out in tents and tent cities is going to be very bad once winter sets in.
Whoop! Dar it is! Whoop!
Excellent example of citizens taking part in their community and government!
Power to the People!
Well done.
This is the first mortgage protest that I think might accomplish something.
Unlike Citi, BofA did little wrong to anyone in the 2008 crisis or before, but it bought a pig back in 2008 with the purchase of mortgage servicers and criminal securitizer Countrywide. That Countrywide staff and their policies needs to be replaced and this might get them off their butts and started with the replacement and new policies.
Great action. It’s one neighborhood but it could grow across the country and I hope it does.
Yep
Damn! That would have been a much better post headline.
I like that it has both a postive (cleaning up an eyesore in their own neighborhood) as well as a negative component. I could see homeowner’s assocaitions and civic associations organizing copycat events in their own locales
hey bankers…stop trashing our country.
yep. love it.
good one
Get sub-0 sleeping bags.
I already have. This stuff will snowball. At a certain point even the corporate media will not be able to ignore it. Although they will try.
Also get a good tent.
Sleeping bag, sub-0 = 100 to 200
Tent, decent = 200
Extras = 200
Ya it’s a lot of money. But better to get the stuff now when we still have money.