I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Rose Gudiel was unable to get a loan modification from the company that services her mortgage and facing imminent eviction when Occupy Wall Street activists in Los Angeles mounted a campaign to help her keep her home.
MSNBC reports that Fannie Mae canceled an eviction notice and offered new mortgage terms after hundreds joined Gudiel in a protest in front of the $26 million Bel Air mansion owned by Steve Mnuchin, the CEO of OneWest, the company that serviced her mortgage.
A day later, many joined her at a sit-in at the Pasadena branch of Fannie Mae, where television captured Rose Gudiel’s disabled mother giving an impassioned plea for her home. Rose, her mother, Rose Marie and seven other protesters — some of them from “Occupy LA” — were arrested, and taken away in a paddy wagon as TV cameras rolled. They were cited and quickly released.
The next day, Rose Gudiel announced to a cheering crowd that she had received a letter from the bank inviting her to discuss a loan modification proposal.
Gudiel connected with allies by telling her story at a general assembly meeting organized by the Occupy Wall St. demonstrators in L.A.
Similar assemblies are being organized in cities across the country.
Housing activist Bruce Marks, founder of the non-profit Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, told MSNBC that he thinks the collective action to save Gudiel’s home will help others in similar situations.
“It has a tremendous impact,” Marks said. “Now at OneWest you are going to see a lot more solutions. … The people getting (benefit from the protest) won’t even know that those two hundred people put themselves on the line.”
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