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URGENT: Cancer Patient About to be Evicted!


MAKE THE CALL

Ocwen CEO Ron Faris: 561-682-8560  ronald.faris@ocwen.com  Make these points:

  1. Please stop the impending eviction.
  2. Please suspend the foreclosure process
  3. Please offer a deal Jacqueline Barber can afford in order to stay in her home (she’s already offered $160,000 for her own home).

 

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I wanted to share this story of Jacqueline Barber with you. Our Allies at the Home Defenders League and Occupy Homes asked us to get involved to stop the imminent eviction of a very sick woman and her family. Your action could help tip the balance.
People like Jacqueline Barber are the reason we are taking the fight to Washington for the May 18- 23 Week of Action to end “Too Big to Jail”. We just can’t allow heartbreaking stories like this to continue.
Here’s the story. – Brian K.
Dear Carmen,
20-year Atlanta Police Department veteran. Grandmother of four. Car crash survivor. Bone cancer patient. Foreclosure fraud victim. Jacqueline Barber is all those things, but most importantly, she’s a fighter. And right now she’s fighting for her home.
Jacqueline Barber spent 20 years on the Atlanta police force, only retiring when injured by a car in the line of duty. In 2009, the predatory loan on her house caused her payment to go up $1500. Then she was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer and had to undergo aggressive treatment to save her life. She fought back against the disease, and spent months filling out forms and asking for modifications to her mortgage. When her loan was sold to Ally Bank and its servicer GMAC, she started the fight again, and was close to victory when nearly 21,000 supporters signed a petition to Ally to finalize their negotiations and end Jacqueline’s eviction.
We thought we’d be writing you soon with good news, since the banks and servicers (including GMAC) had started what we thought were good faith negotiations as a result of your actions.
Then the unthinkable happened: Ally admitted to Jacqueline her loan was now in control of A DIFFERENT company. 

Yesterday Jacqueline Barber got a call from Ocwen, a financial institute she’s never heard of, informing her that she had 2 days to vacate her home. She had just gotten out of the hospital after having a procedure done on her back, leaving her walker bound when not bed ridden. The news from Ocwen was not the news a cancer patient fighting their second bout of multiple myeloma would want to hear.

Jacqueline Barber found out that her mortgage has transferred from GMAC to Ocwen Financial Services, and Ocwen is refusing to honor any of the deals arranged with GMAC over the last 6 months.

Call Ocwen CEO Ronald Faris at 561-682-8560 and tell him to make a deal that Jacqueline can afford, or have her blood on his hands. (sample script below). To make sure he gets the message, also send him an email at ronald.faris@ocwen.com

Ocwen Financial services is a company notorious for shipping jobs overseas, creating tax havens in the Virgin Islands, and defrauding customers. The stress of an eviction would not only leave Jacqueline, her daughter, and four grandchildren homeless, it would also serve to accelerate her cancer.

Call and email Ocwen CEO Ronald Faris at 561-682-8560 and ronald.faris@ocwen.com and tell him to make a deal that Jacqueline and her family can afford, or have her blood on his hands. (sample script below)

Script: “Hi, my name is _________ and I’m calling on behalf of Jacquline Barber at 160 Stearman Road in Fayetteville, GA 30214. I understand that Ocwen aquired GMAC in February and will not honor the negotiations that have kept Jacqueline and her family in her home to this point as she undergoes chemotherapy. I demand that you offer Jacqueline and her family a deal they can afford to keep them in their home, and relieve Jacqueline of the stress of eviction while she bravely fights bone cancer.

Jacqueline worked hard in her professional life to keep people safe through her work as a police detective. She was even injured on the job. Now, facing a recurrence of bone cancer and an eviction foreclosure, she’s on the verge of having her home stolen by the same bankers who destroyed our economy, put 16 million homeowners underwater and 7 million families into the foreclosure process.

Please make the call. You can report what happened on the call by clicking here and leaving a comment on the blog post.
Also please take a moment to sign our petition in support of Jacqueline’s fight.
In solidarity,

Brian, Campaign for a Fair Settlement

http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/
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Victory for Dixie Mitchell … Ian Pajer-Rogers New Bottom Line


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Thank everyone for signing this petition from The New Bottom Line to help Dixie Mitchell keep her home, which was scheduled to be auctioned off on October 28th.

Last week, we delivered over 7,000 petition signatures and Dixie’s loan modification paperwork to Ocwen Financial in Florida, while Dixie’s supporters rallied outside of her Seattle home. Dixie’s story earned tons of media coverage in Seattle and Dixie also went on Up with Chris Hayes on MSNBC to talk about her case.

All the hard work finally paid off. On Friday, Dixie received a call from Ocwen offering her the loan modification that will save her home.http://www.newbottomline.com/victory_for_dixie_mitchell

This after years of Dixie fighting just to get Ocwen to look at the paperwork. It’s a testament to what can happen when people organize to hold corporations and big banks accountable to regular Americans.

While Dixie can now rest easy knowing that her home is safe, millions of other Americans are not so fortunate. The New Bottom Line is made up of dozens of local progressive, faith-based, and community groups in 27 states nationwide. We are committed to fighting for an economy that works for all Americans and are particularly focused on elevating low-income communities that were hardest hit by the financial crisis.

Join The New Bottom Line: http://www.newbottomline.com/join

Like The New Bottom Line on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newbottomline

Follow The New Bottom Line on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nblcampaign

Whether it’s helping an individual save her home or fighting for principal reduction on millions of underwater mortgages, The New Bottom Line is at the front line of the fight for economic justice.

In this exciting time where the 99% is finding a powerful voice, join The New Bottom Line to stay up to date on all the action –whether it’s 40 Robin Hoods paddling down the Chicago River or a divestment campaign that you organize in your community– The New Bottom Line is at the forefront of fighting for an economy that works for all of us.

Thanks so much for your action.

Ian Pajer-Rogers
Online Organizer
The New Bottom Line

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Help Save Dixie’s Home … Stop foreclosur​e on a 71-year-ol​d cancer survivor


Below is an email from Ian Pajer-Rogers, a MoveOn member who created a petition at SignOn.org that is getting a lot of attention and may be of interest to people in your area. If you have concerns or feedback about this petition, click here.

Dear Seattle MoveOn member,

Dixie Mitchell, a 71-year-old cancer survivor, and her husband, Luster, have owned their Seattle home for 44 years. This is the same home where the Mitchells raised their nine biological children and cared for fifty foster children, and the house was paid off in full in the mid-1980s.

When Dixie needed some money to make home repairs and to help one of the foster children in her care, her bank advised her to refinance her home. Under the direction of the bank, she took out a loan that they promised would work for what she needed.

But then the loan was bundled and resold. Soon after, Luster, suffered a massive stroke that has left him paralyzed and unable to work. Because of the bank’s changes to the loan, Dixie quickly fell behind on her payments. Without her husband’s earnings, her monthly income is just $2,200 in Social Security and her monthly mortgage is $2,052.

Now, despite Dixie’s best efforts, the Mitchells’ home is set to be auctioned on October 28, and they have no place to go.All Dixie needs is a small modification to the loan and she’ll be able to keep her house. The problem is that Ocwen Financial,which holds the loan, just won’t budge. Not because they can’t, but because they don’t want to.

That’s why I created a petition to Ronald Faris, President of Ocwen Financial, on SignOn.org, which says:

Tell the Big Banks, enough is enough! Ocwen Financial will soon be the country’s largest holder of subprime loans. Ocwenis even a participant in a federal program to help modify loans for families affected by the housing crisis—but theystill aren’t responding.

The Mitchells are one of the thousands of families who have already lost their home or are at risk of foreclosure. The Big Banks have drained wealth from hard-working Americans like the Mitchells, and continue to dodge taxes while making record profits.

Demand that Ocwen Financial give the Mitchells the simple loan modification they need in order to keep their home.

Will you sign the petition? Click here to add your name, and then pass it along to your friends:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=265429&id=32075-17809870-SllSr5x&t=2

Thanks!

–Ian Pajer-Rogers

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