Calling on the 99% to TURN OUT on International Women’s Day
Thursday, March 8th, 11:30am
STOP THE AUCTION of Nell Myhand and Synthia Green’s home!
Alameda County Court House steps, 1225 Fallon, Oakland
(Lake Merritt BART or #40 Bus Stop)
Support Oakland Women in Saving Their Home
Join us in saying no to the sale of the home of Nell Myhand and Synthia Green!
Bring whistles, drums, tambourines, pots/pans and spoons, and your lovely voices
AND
CALL CHASE BANK : Tell them to stop the sale & work to keep Nell and Synthia in their home.
Phone/fax/email blast on Wednesday and Thursday!
● Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon: Tel: 1-800-548-7912 or 877-682-4273
Fax 614-422-7575
Email: Jamie.dimon@jpmchase.com
● FHFA (Freddie Mac) CEO DeMarco: Tel: 202-649-3800
Fax: 202-649-1071
Email: FHFAinfo@FHFA.gov
Information you will need to know:
Owners & Property Address: Martha Nell Myhand and Synthia E. Green
1329 E 32nd St., Oakland 94602 Loan #1996439003
Background: Longtime women’s rights and community activists Nell Myhand and Synthia Green’s house is being put up for auction on International Women’s Day along with over 30 other homes. Nell and Synthia have lived in their home for the past 11 years and have already paid over $150,000. Chase Bank and their thieving friends are foreclosing on the house after giving them a runaround and refusing to work with them on a loan modification. And when Nell became unemployed she along with thousands of others were not told of the federal government mortgage assistance programs for people who are out of a waged job.
Both women now live on a low income: Nell Myhand is employed as a half-time housing counselor. She is also a caregiver for her partner, Synthia Green, a retired teacher living on STRS disability retirement. Their income dropped when Nell’s mother became ill requiring full-time caregiving from her daughter and when Synthia had a stroke and was forced into early retirement. At first she was denied disability (despite losing her sight) but ultimately won her rights. She is now blind.
As is the case with many families of color and other low income families, the Bank has no concern for their economic hardships. Nell has spent hundreds of hours tied up with loan modifications paperwork and being sent between the bank and other entities who “may own their home”. In the end their applications for loan modifications were denied twice. Even with the auction pending she is in the middle of another modification request and like thousands of other families is still trying to find out who has the title to the house. They intend to resist any efforts to evict them from their home, with its lovely garden that they both love.
On March 8 (IWD), the day Nell and Synthia’s home is scheduled to be auctioned, we will be protesting the impact of the housing and economic crisis on women and our families.
Despite the enormous contributions women make to the very survival of society, doing 2/3rds of the world’s work for 5% of the world’s income, yet it is women and our children that are most impoverished.
AND
CALL CHASE BANK : Tell them to stop the sale & work to keep Nell and Synthia in their home.
Phone/fax/email blast on Wednesday and Thursday!
● Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon: Tel: 1-800-548-7912 or 877-682-4273
Fax 614-422-7575
Email: Jamie.dimon@jpmchase.com
● FHFA (Freddie Mac) CEO DeMarco: Tel: 202-649-3800
Fax: 202-649-1071
Email: FHFAinfo@FHFA.gov
Information you will need to know:
Owners & Property Address: Martha Nell Myhand and Synthia E. Green
1329 E 32nd St., Oakland 94602 Loan #1996439003
Background: Longtime women’s rights and community activists Nell Myhand and Synthia Green’s house is being put up for auction on International Women’s Day along with over 30 other homes. Nell and Synthia have lived in their home for the past 11 years and have already paid over $150,000. Chase Bank and their thieving friends are foreclosing on the house after giving them a runaround and refusing to work with them on a loan modification. And when Nell became unemployed she along with thousands of others were not told of the federal government mortgage assistance programs for people who are out of a waged job.
Both women now live on a low income: Nell Myhand is employed as a half-time housing counselor. She is also a caregiver for her partner, Synthia Green, a retired teacher living on STRS disability retirement. Their income dropped when Nell’s mother became ill requiring full-time caregiving from her daughter and when Synthia had a stroke and was forced into early retirement. At first she was denied disability (despite losing her sight) but ultimately won her rights. She is now blind.
As is the case with many families of color and other low income families, the Bank has no concern for their economic hardships. Nell has spent hundreds of hours tied up with loan modifications paperwork and being sent between the bank and other entities who “may own their home”. In the end their applications for loan modifications were denied twice. Even with the auction pending she is in the middle of another modification request and like thousands of other families is still trying to find out who has the title to the house. They intend to resist any efforts to evict them from their home, with its lovely garden that they both love.
On March 8 (IWD), the day Nell and Synthia’s home is scheduled to be auctioned, we will be protesting the impact of the housing and economic crisis on women and our families.
Despite the enormous contributions women make to the very survival of society, doing 2/3rds of the world’s work for 5% of the world’s income, yet it is women and our children that are most impoverished.
• When the banks attack our families by foreclosing on our homes they attack our health, and communities. Housing is an internationally recognized human right. Because of the economic crisis and cost of housing increasing numbers of people are homeless and being criminalized for being poor. Enough is enough! Women and children are the fastest growing population of homeless people.
• Women are the fastest growing group going to prison. Thirty percent of foster children could be at home if their parents just had homes.
• If you are on welfare and you lose your housing you are subject to being accused of neglect and having your children removed by Child Protective Services.
• Chase received $25 billion from Congress in bailout money. Within days JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon admitted that Chase had no intention of helping homeowners but instead intended to take over other banks. Jamie Dimon, the highest paid bank exec got over $20 million in salary, stock, etc. in 2010.
• Since 2007 Chase has foreclosed on over 200,000 homes in California and over 2800 closures in Oakland where more than 35,000 foreclosures have occurred.
• Ninety percent of foreclosures in Oakland fall in 3 zip codes that have a high concentration of Black people, monolingual Spanish speakers, and elders.
• It is projected that between 10 and 13 million foreclosures will have occurred by the time the crisis is over. Communities of color are the hardest hit.
A recent audit of County Records in SF revealed that 84% of foreclosures had clear violations of law. Ninety-nine percent had at least one irregularity that raises questions about fraud! In some cases the banks are going into the County Recorder’s office and assigning our homes to themselves and then foreclosing on us.
Supporters to date: Causa Justa::Just Cause; Commemoration Committee of the Black Panther Party; Every Mother is a Working Mother; Haiti Action Committee; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; No2 HousingCrime; US PROStitutes Collective; Queer Strike; Sister Circle; Boots Riley and activists in Occupy Oakland, friends & others…
Drafted by: Global Women’s Strike and Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike
sf@globalwomenstrike.net, 415-626-4114
We refuse to be made homeless for the profit of the 1%