Category Archives: Take Action!

Information about upcoming hearings, protests, rallies, and other ways you can take action to keep families in their homes and fight against the foreclosure crisis.

Support MAAPL This Holiday Season!

As the giving season approaches, please remember the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL): we are situated to reverse not only the largest foreclosure crisis in U.S. history (with a massive land and wealth transfer to the uber-wealthiest) but also … Continue reading

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Press Release: Homeowners Speak Out: Preforeclosure Mediation Needed to Stop Predatory Foreclosures

Download Press Release ( PDF ) On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, members of the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) gathered at the State House with supporters and homeowners from across the Commonwealth to give testimony before the Joint Committee … Continue reading

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Press Release: Will Judge Fields uphold the Constitution and his own orders for King and We the People?

Download this Press Release ( PDF ) Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending www.maapl.info Contact: Grace Ross, 617-291-5591 For immediate release, June 23, 2023 Will Judge Fields uphold the Constitution and his own orders for King and We the People? Friday, … Continue reading

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Press Release: Homeowners and Their Supporters Reveal 150 Years of Predatory Lending

Download the full Press Release here ( PDF ) Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending www.maapl.info                      maaplinfo@gmail.com For Immediate Release: 6/20/2023 Contact: Grace Ross – MAAPL coordinator, (617) 291-5591  HOMEOWNERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS REVEAL 150 YEARS OF PREDATORY DISCRIMINATORY LENDING … Continue reading

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Action Alert: Press Conference and Juneteenth Rally on Tuesday, June 20th!

Please join the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) for a Press Conference and Juneteenth Rally on Beacon Hill! Click the image above to enlarge it. Click here to download. WHEN: Tuesday, June 20th, 12:00-1:00 PM WHERE: 3 Pemberton Square, … Continue reading

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Action Alert: Join MAAPL on 5/9/23 for a Press Conference and Hearings on Bills to Protect Massachusetts Homeowners

Please join MAAPL on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 for a press conference and Judiciary Committee hearing on four important bills protecting Massachusetts homeowners. Download the Press Advisory here ( PDF ) PRESS CONFERENCE: Twenty years into the harm from the … Continue reading

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South Essex Register O’Brien: “I refuse to enforce discriminatory mortgages”

On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 in Salem, Massachusetts, the South Essex County Register of Deeds, the Honorable John L. O’Brien, Jr., announced at a press conference at the Salem Registry of Deeds that he has filed to intervene in the … Continue reading

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Press Release: Alton King Returns Home

On Friday, November 18, 2022, Alton King, a Black senior with a disability who had been wrongfully evicted from his Longmeadow, MA home, returned to his house for the first time in over a month. King said in a statement … Continue reading

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Press Release – Homeowners and Public Outraged: Blocked Attending Historic Hearing Retrying Predatory Mortgage Case

On Thursday, November 10, 2022 the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) released a statement to the media regarding Tommy and Mary Morris being denied the right to attend their own hearing before the Housing Court on November 9, 2022. … Continue reading

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