US Senate defeats mortgage relief measure
The US Senate on Thursday defeated a measure that could have helped millions of
Americans
avoid foreclosure by letting bankruptcy judges cut their mortgage
payments.
http://snipurl.com/h6i59
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Bill Moyers
The JOURNAL profiles Steve Meacham, a Boston-based organizer who's trying to
halt the tidal wave of evictions and foreclosures plaguing his community.
Meacham works for an award-winning organization known as City Life/Vida
Urbana, a group that's pioneered new strategies to help working people hold
on to their homes in the face of intense pressure from banks.
Sen. Dick Durbin:
"The Banks are Still the most powerful lobby on Capital Hill.
And They frankly Own the place"
video:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05012009/watch2.html
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Top Senate Democrat: Bankers 'Own' the US Congress
By Glenn Greenwald
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22534.htm
Here's Jane Hamsher, with Rachel Maddow, in February,
assessing the motives of people like Evan Bayh and analyzing who owns and
controls them
(begins at the 3:00 minute mark):
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5wxAdLlds
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