We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Foreclosure Lawyers Go to Gardner's Farm for Edge on Lenders

by Prashant Gopal from Bloomberg. 

Okay, some lawyers are making a mint off of other people's misery, but skills and information is necessary if foreclosure activists choose to fight foreclosures legally. And the article is quite slanted toward making money by lawyers off this new industry. Still, there is a lot of useful legal information in the article for people fighting foreclosures.

Washington's Blog has been closely following the mortgage frauds and here are two articles that may be of interest to you:

"The Fraud Perpetrated Upon Investors and Insurers Due to Multiple Pledges of Collateral Could Be Massive"


Why Did Banks Give Home Loans to People Who They KNEW Couldn't Pay?

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