SAFE Newsletter, 2012/10/18
At Tuesday’s meeting SAFE members outlined a plan of action that runs through the end of this year. We are putting a special emphasis on building our base, i.e., canvassing homeowners facing foreclosure. We’re also working with a group that’ll call all the families in selected zip codes asking them if they are in foreclosure and if SAFE could be of help. Following this phone blitz, we’ll hold a mass meeting, with set direct actions arranged for the subsequent weeks.
Other Upcoming Events:
Another very hectic week focused on the construction of two 32-foot banners. (Images of these are now on our Facebook page.) On Friday, we bannered on Bellevue, I-90 overpass during the morning rush, then held a silent vigil at Northwest Trustee Services’ foreclosure auction. NTS, as you may recall, is the largest foreclosure company in the Seattle area, accounting for more Seattle foreclosures than all other companies combined.
“If [industrial wealth] is to serve all, and serve all equally, it cannot be the property of the few. To ask these few to have regard for the common weal, particularly when under the competitive system they are forced always to think first of themselves or perish, is to put too great a strain on human nature. With the present concentration of economic power in the hands of a small class, a condition that is likely to get worse before it gets better, the survival or development of society that could in any sense be called democratic is unthinkable.” Â — George S. Counts,