Yesterday, a mother and her three children were evicted from their home on Detroit's west side.  All of their belongings were removed from their home and dumped into two huge dumpsters. 

The family reached out for help to the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO), which in turn contacted other community groups.  Activists from MWRO, MECAWI, the Green Party, Call 'Em Out, immigrant rights activists, and other groups converged on her home at the end of the workday.

Neighbors pitched in as well. In about two hours, much of the family's belongings were back inside their home.  Temporary repairs were made to the side door, which had been bashed in. Appliances were reconnected. 

Over the next day or so, volunteers vow that they will return to repair more of the damage done by the Bailiff and his goon squad.   A meeting has been called for Saturday at Central United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit. The meeting's purpose is to build a coalition to back a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions.    State Senator Hansen Clarke recently introduced a bill to freeze foreclosures in Michigan for two years. Over Fifty people joined Clarke at a press conference in Detroit last Friday to announce the moratorium bill. 

But as the organizers of Saturday's meeting point out, "Everyone knows that a bill that challenges the banks and lending institutions can only be passed with a really mass movement behind it."

In Boston, City Life/Vida Urbana is at the core of organizing against foreclosure evictions and says people will blockade evictions if necessary.

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