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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
HOME FORECLOSURE OUTREACH EVENT
Update:
The event below is cancelled because Councilman Richard Trojanski will be holding a Home Foreclosure Outreach event on February 2, 2013 from 11 am to 2pm (Maple Hts Library, Auditorium A)
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THE "MAPLE HEIGHTS CITIZENS FOR CHANGE"
HOME FORECLOSURES AND VACANT HOMES (EX. 2012 THERE WERE OVER 550 FORECLOSURE FILINGS IN MAPLE HEIGHTS)
LEARN ABOUT HOME FORECLOSURES AND VACANT BUILDINGS IN MAPLE HEIGHTS
ALSO
GET HELP IF YOU ARE:
IN FORECLOSURE
FACING FORECLOSURE
WANT TO AVOID FORECLOSURE
WHEN: TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013
WHERE: MAPLE HTS LIBRARY, MAPLE HTS, OH
TIME: 7:30PM TO 9PM
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Discussions for future meetings:
INDEPENDENT CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
OWNERSHIP MONEY CIRCULATION PRINCIPLE
SYSTEMIC RACISM IN MAPLE HEIGHTS GOVERNMENT
LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN MAPLE HEIGHTS GOV'T
LEGAL REMEDIES
CHAMPIONING NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS
'This Indian Country':Historian Hoxie chronicles lesser-known American Indians who championed their people’s rights
Published: Sunday, October 28, 2012, 2:33 PM Updated: Sunday, October 28, 2012, 2:56 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE TO OHIOANS
RESTORING
STABILITY
A Save the Dream
Ohio Initiative
The Ohio Housing Finance
Agency (OHFA) administers Ohio’s foreclosure prevention program for homeowners
who are at high risk of default or foreclosure.
Ohio was allocated $570.4 million from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s
Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) to implement Restoring Stability: A Save the Dream Ohio
Initiative.
Aimed to assist homeowners
with financial hardships including unemployment, reduced wages or hours, death
of a spouse, increased medical expenses or divorce.
For Homeowners:
1. Rescue
Payment Assistance: brings the homeowner
current on his or her delinquent mortgage;
2. Mortgage
Payment Assistance provides up to 15 months of mortgage payments;
3. Mortgage
Modification with Contribution Assistance reduces delinquent and/or principal
balances to help homeowners qualify for an affordable loan modification;
4. Transition
Assistance provides an alternative to foreclosure by offering relocation
assistance in connection with an approved short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure;
and
5. Lien
Elimination Assistance provides a payment to extinguish the homeowner’s
mortgage loan.
Eligibility requirements:
1. A
verifiable financial hardship (i.e. involuntary loss of income, reduction in
wages or hours, divorce, disability, death of a family member, illness or a
significant increase in medical expenses;
2. A
household income of less than 115 percent of the county area median income;
3. A
first mortgage debt of less than $432,000; and,
4. Liquid
assets (i.e. savings and checking accounts, not retirement savings) that total
less than six months of mortgage payments.
CALL: 888.404.4674
CALL: 888.404.4674
*Note: Applicants must meet
eligibility requirements related to income, assets and hardship. Participation is contingent upon mortgage
servicer approval.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
FREDDIE STOWERS, ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN AWARDED MEDAL OF HONOR FOR SERVICE IN WWI
An Email from Lonnie Bunch:
Lonnie Bunch, museum director, historian,
lecturer, and author, is proud to present A Page from Our
American Story, a regular on-line series for Museum
supporters. It will showcase individuals and events in the African American
experience, placing these stories in the context of a larger story — our
American story.
A
Page From Our American Story
Freddie Stowers, the grandson of a South Carolina slave, holds a unique
spot in America's pantheon of war heroes — as the only African American awarded
the Medal of Honor for service in World War I. Stowers' story, however, must be
told in two parts. The first part of the story is his act of heroism in 1918;
the second part is that it took more than 72 years before Stowers finally
received the recognition he was due.
The United States was the last major combatant to enter World War I,
the “war to end all wars.” The conflict began in Europe in 1914, but in the
U.S., isolationist sentiments were strong resulting in a foreign policy of
non-intervention.
However, on May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British ship Lusitania, killing 128 Americans on board, sparking anti-Germany sentiment in the United States. In the next two years, a series of events added to American anger with Germany. On April 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. By the end of June 1917, American troops were in France.
Corporal Freddie Stowers came to France as part of the all-black
Company C, 371st Regiment, 93rd Division that deployed in
September, 1918. His service in France was short but courageous and
memorable.
More than 50 years after the Civil War, America's military was still
segregated. The French, however, had no such rules, and Stowers and Company C
were sent to the front lines to serve alongside French
troops.
On September 28, just days after arriving in France, Stowers' company
was in the midst of an attack on Hill 188, Champagne Marne Sector, France, when
enemy forces appeared to be giving up.
According to the War Department, German soldiers emerged from their
trenches waving a white flag, arms in the air — military actions that signal
surrender. It was a ruse, however. As Americans, including Cpl. Stowers, went to
capture the “surrendering” Germans, another wave of the enemy arose and opened
fire.
Very quickly, Company C's lieutenant and non-commissioned officers were
killed in the fight. This left the 21-year-old Stowers in command. Without
hesitation, he implored his men to advance on the Germans.
Stowers would be mortally shot during the exchange. Wounded and dying,
Stowers continued to fight on, inspiring his men to push the enemy back. With
Stowers leading the counter-attack, Americans took out an enemy machine gun
position and went on to capture Hill 188.
Following the battle, Stowers' commanding officer nominated him for the
Medal of Honor, but the nomination was never processed. The Pentagon said the
paperwork was misplaced. Some raise the possibility that the nomination wasn't
misplaced at all, but deliberately lost. They point to the fact that American
troops were segregated and suggest that racial bias in the military might be the
reason for Stowers' missing paperwork.
The final part of Freddie Stowers' story begins in 1990. As the
Department of Defense began to modernize its data systems, it ordered a review
of all battlefield medal nominations. When Stowers' recommendation was found,
the Pentagon quickly took action to give the corporal the long overdue
recognition and honor he deserved.
On April 24, 1991, more than 72 years after Stowers made the ultimate
sacrifice for his nation, his sisters Georgiana Palmer and Mary Bowens, 88- and
77-years-old at the time, were presented his Medal of Honor by President George
H. W. Bush.
Long before Stowers was honored by his nation, he, along with other
members of Company C, received recognition from the French government: “For
extraordinary heroism under fire.” Stowers and his unit received the Croix de
Guerre – the French War Cross — the highest military medal France awards to
allied soldiers.
Prior to World War I, 49 African Americans had been awarded the Medal
of Honor, including 25 men who fought for the Union in the Civil War. There were
119 Medals of Honor recipients in World War I, with Stowers being the only
African American. His long overdue recognition in 1991 is a small but important
sign of the progress we as a nation have made.
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The
National Museum of African American History and Culture is the newest member of
the Smithsonian Institution's family of extraordinary
museums.
The
museum will be far more than a collection of objects. The Museum will be a
powerful, positive force in the national discussion about race and the important
role African Americans have played in the American story — a museum that will
make all Americans proud.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
LISTEN UP MAPLE HEIGHTS
Listen up Maple Heights' Apartheid government. Your days are numbered, and we are going to make sure you are exposed.
And for those Maple Heights officials and other public employees who are so used to not being accountable to their employers, and will do everything they can to not be accountable, we will tackle this problem with systemic racism in Maple Heights legally.
That's how we always deal.
And for those Maple Heights officials and other public employees who are so used to not being accountable to their employers, and will do everything they can to not be accountable, we will tackle this problem with systemic racism in Maple Heights legally.
That's how we always deal.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
BLACK GIRLS ROCK 2012 KEEP ROCKING
I hope you're watching Black Girls Rock 2012. Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King are exceptional hosts. Don't you agree?
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