protest over the auction of a foreclosed home

[David Bacon]

OAKLAND, CA  12MARCH09 -- On the steps of the Alameda County Courthouse, community activists in the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) protest the auction of the foreclosed home of Armando Ramos and Fernanda Cardenas.  Their home mortgage, held by the mortgage company OCWEN, had an adjustable rate.  When it went up, Ramos and Cardenas could no longer make the payments.  OCWEN then decided to auction off the home on the courthouse steps.

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Just out from Beacon Press:

Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US

Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html

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