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GRITtv: Home Defenders

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Yesterday, the first activist in a civil disobedience campaign to resist foreclosure was arrested in Baltimore. The campaign, launched by ACORN earlier this month, aims to draw attention to the foreclosure crisis and ultimately allow people to save their homes. The question is whether activists and home defenders can help affect policy and whether cities will begin to adopt moratoriums on home foreclosures.

Frances Fox Piven, a Professor at CUNY and the author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Pat Boone, President of ACORN NY, and C. Nicole Mason, Executive Director of the Women of Color Policy Network at NYU, discuss the civil disobedience campaign and its potential impact on public policy.

 
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