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Last Week in Poverty: Homeowners Take the Foreclosure Fight to the DOJ

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Last week at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, 500 activists marched to the Department of Justice to "Bring Justice to Justice - a three day protest to stand up for people facing home foreclosure.
"I m really nervous and scared to go to jail, said Dupuy. "But if that s what it takes to let people know they re not alone "the shame shouldn t be put on people.

Since 2006, Dupuy s mortgage has had so many different banks and loan servicers attached to it that the trail is dizzying. As a result, she has had her paperwork lost as servicers change, not been provided new mailing addresses for payments, fought off two sheriff s sales and even received modification "offers that would have had her paying double-digit interest rates and waiving her right to sue for the mishandling of her note.

Throughout her struggle, Dupuy has found herself alone.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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