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May 2009 May 1, 2009 — Steve Meacham: Fighting Foreclosure Put this article in the must-watch or must read category.  Bill Moyers Journal profiles Steve Meacham, a Boston-based organizer who works for 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.  The group combines The Shield, the legal defense, and The Sword, a public relations, public protest offense, plus a legislative strategy. Meacham also addresses the arguments that people were greedy in buying homes and moral hazard as the reason why banks can't resell property to existing homeowners at its real value.  He talks about the morality of banks evicting people for no reason causing untold suffering because they don’t want to be landlords.  And how bringing the moral lens and working together helps people fight eviction or losing their homes. “But if empathy is somehow the quintessential human emotion, the quintessential thing that makes us human, then solidarity is its expression.” May 1, 2009 - Arianna On "Countdown," Discusses How Dem Senators Screwed Homeowners Hear Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) argue for the cram-down portion of the Bankruptcy bill. “The banks, hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created, are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”