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Donkees's JournalUTLA Board and House green-light process to explore endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for US President
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
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UTLA is moving forward with a unique process to help shape the U.S. presidential race by engaging members over the next eight weeks and conducting an advisory vote of chapter leaders to consider endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party primary. After that up-or-down advisory vote at the November 13 area meetings, the UTLA House will make the final decision on endorsement on November 14.
The process was approved by both the UTLA Board and the UTLA House. See the motion language here. The 35-1 vote of the UTLA Board on September 11 and the 135-46 vote of the House on September 18 indicate that the broad leadership of UTLA currently believes that Sanders is the candidate to consider endorsing. The Board and House votes also indicate that they want broad member and chapter leader involvement in making a decision regarding endorsement.
“Sanders is shaping up to be the candidate with the best chance not just to win the White House, but to actually change the conditions of massive inequality and underfunding of public education,” UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl says. “The process approved by our Board and House makes clear our broad union leaders’ recognition of Sanders’ unique platform while also going to our most important resource—our members and chapter leaders—for dialogue and advice before making this important decision.”
“Bernie Sanders has the only campaign that isn’t about an individual—it’s about a broad movement, just like our strike was,” UTLA/NEA Vice President Cecily Myart-Cruz says. “Our strike showed the nation what a fighting union looks like, and now we use that power to affect change on the national level by considering support for a candidate who cares about the things we care about.”
https://www.utla.net/news/utla-board-and-house-green-light-process-explore-endorsing-sen-bernie-sanders-us-president
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ALEXANDER SAMMON - SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
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His Housing for All plan includes a commission to study and grant relief to victims of fraud and abuse in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis.
Perhaps the most interesting and novel proposal in the Sanders housing platform comes in its final bullet point. There, Sanders proposes to create “a commission to establish a financial relief program to the victims of predatory lending, mortgage fraud, redlining and those who are still underwater on their mortgages as a result of the 2008 Wall Street crash. This program shall include down payment assistance, mortgage relief, or rental assistance.” That relief, Sanders insists, must go to homeowners, not the Wall Street firms that put them in this position.
The commission, too, would pay out, in the form of rental or down payment assistance, and funds to those who saw their houses foreclosed on illegitimately or were otherwise victimized by the crash. The inclusion of that demographic is important, because of its inordinate impact of communities of color, who were hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis.
There were particularly flagrant examples of this. Former Wells Fargo employees at one point testified that they’d deliberately tricked middle-class black families (who they called “mud people”) into subprime “ghetto loans,” a cruel twist on the redlining policies that banks have long been used to exclude racial minorities from access to home loans. Because home ownership makes up a much larger percentage of black and Latino wealth than it does white wealth, that foreclosure wave vaporized wealth from people of color in a way that never recovered. As Matt Breunig and Ryan Cooper noted in Jacobin, it took until 2016 for black wealth to return to 2007 levels, but the average black home equity has remained over $16,000 lower. An ACLU report stated that by 2031, for black households, wealth will be 40 percent lower than if the recession hadn’t taken place, leaving black families about $98,000 poorer.
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