Join MAAPL homeowner foreclosure-fighters across Massachusetts on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 as they hold a series of press conferences across the Commonwealth to demand that the MA Supreme Judicial Court break its silence on the constitutional provisions and laws that outlaw discriminatory predatory lending practices.
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1/16/24 – HOMEOWNERS SPEAK OUT: DEMAND MA SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT BREAK ITS 47 YEAR SILENCE AS TO DISCRIMINATORY AND CONSTITUTIONALLY PROHIBITED TAKING OF THEIR HOMES AND LAND
The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending homeowner foreclosure-fighters
are holding press conferences across Massachusetts on Tuesday, January 26, 2024 – to demand that the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court ends its 50-year silence on constitutional provisions and laws which outlaw discriminatory predatory lending.
The lack of the “Aggressive enforcement” state government leaders called for in the 1990s has allowed historic rates of predatory loans to be targeted at individuals and communities; this has led to a historic rate of foreclosures, economic, personal, familial and neighborhood damages which the Supreme Judicial Court’s Action now could still repair.
In just 4 years, 2006-2010; US median Black wealth lost 54%; Latino wealth 66%; and Asian wealth 34% (for the loss ascribable to foreclosures.)
Homeowners will tell individual stories, show how they demonstrate extensive illegal patterns and call for justice now.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024 –
Pittsfield/Springfield/Worcester/Boston/Brockton/Hyannis
Pittsfield
7:30 AM
Location TBA
Springfield – (Local press contact/coordinator: Gary Yard, 413-557-8881
9:45 AM Gather for press conference
Arise for Social Justice
38 School St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Worcester – (Local press contact/coordinator: Sam Bishop, 413-992-8546
Noon – 1pm
YWCA
1 Salem Street
Worcester, MA 01608
Boston – (Local press contact/coordinator: Laurie Endsley, 978-514-4790)
2:30 PM -3:30
In front of the Supreme Judicial Court
John Adams Courthouse
One Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108
Brockton – (Local press contact/coordinator: Maggie Philippe, 508-345-9186)
5:00 PM
Joe Angelo’s Café
11 Crescent St.
Brockton, MA
Hyannis – (Local press contact/coordinator: Lynne A. Rhodes, 617-962-2268)
8:00 PM
NAACP Museum
276 North Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
Statewide Contact:
Grace C Ross, Coordinator, Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending
Grace@graceross.net (if you receive a bounce message, you can assume that I received
the email anyway, unless I don’t respond)
Cell phone: 617-291-5591
