Disabled Desert Storm Veteran evicted at gunpoint

[Fire Walk With Me]

This past Friday (August 9, 2013) at 8am, Mark Harris was met by DeKalb County Marshals with guns drawn for a surprise eviction.

Mark had been in good faith negotiations with Fannie Mae, even going so far as to take a trip to Washington DC to meet with top Fannie Mae officials. Instead of working with Mark to find a solution that would keep him in his home, Fannie Mae hired a private enforcement team to join DeKalb Marshals and Avondale Estates police.

Fannie Mae enforcers stood in front of Mark's home, at times pretending to be police, attempting to impede traffic, asking neighbors to prove they lived in the community by showing identification and directing Avondale Estates police on how to enforce Mark's eviction.

Friday afternoon, Occupy Our Homes Atlanta and Mark Harris refused to leave Mark's property, setting up tents in the yard determined to keep Mark in his home. On Saturday, Mark and four others went to jail in an act of civil disobedience.

Right now, Mark, a disabled Desert Storm veteran, is homeless and Fannie Mae has enforcers surrounding Mark's home 24/7 at an estimated cost of 15,000 dollars a month.

Can you help us send a message to Fannie Mae that this is unacceptable? We are asking folks to do three things:

1. Share this video:

(Preview) chronicling Mark's eviction and resistance on all of your social networks.


2. Call Fannie Mae CEO Timothy Mayopoulos at 202-752-7000 and let him know their treatment of Mark Harris at 1164 Dunwick Dr., Avondale Estates, GA is unacceptable. Tell him to rescind the foreclosure and let Mark back in his home now!

3. Send a postcard to Fannie Mae's Southeastern Regional Director Candy Lasher asking her to let Mark Harris back in his home. We have prepared postcards and we are willing to send one for you --- all we need is your address! You can send one yourself to: Candy Lasher, 2041 Breckenridge Dr. NE, Atlanta, GA 30345.

In Solidarity,

Occupy Our Homes Atlanta


--
Denechia "Neesha" Powell
Occupy Our Homes Atlanta
Program Organizer

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Good Reason To Tell Our Youth To Refuse To Serve In The Military

This country is so screwed up anymore. I feel less allegiance to the flag than I ever have because military service is a waste of time. The enemy can have this damned country. They for sure can have the GOP maggots. All the American people do is pay lip service to vets and the troops. It was no different for Vietnam vets and earlier Iraq war vets. America screw you. Vets should not be treated this way.

Anti labor and anti worker idiots deserve to work for nothing.

[Triana]

2. I refused because they treat women like shit, raping them with impunity.

I had a friend who went in the Navy. The stories she told me about how women were treated and about the attitudes of men toward her there were horrifying. NO. WAY. would I even consider it. And then there's shit like what happened to this vet. If the United States cannot FULLY take care of our vets, especially disabled ones, then it should stop creating them. Period. This country uses its people for profit and power and for implementing global domination, and then throws them away like so much trash. It's immoral. It's psychopathic. It's bullshit. Maybe if we want to fight some 'war on terror', how about fighting the one being waged RIGHT. HERE at home. How about fighting the war on economic terror being waged on 99% of us every day while corprats feed off of us, off of our lives, off of our labor (or lack of jobs), off of our death and dying, injury and sickness, off of our need for shelter, clean water, decent food, and clean air to breathe. THEY are the parasites. THEY are the takers, moochers, fleas. We're just the hosts they feed off of and they'll do it until they suck us dry and dead. To them, that's what we exist for. That's what the Earth exists for. That's what vets are for. Use 'em until you're done with them and can't make any more profit off of them, then toss them out like trash and let them die. That's America.

There's no good reason. There's no excuse. There's just GREED. This country is so fucking bassackwards it's embarrassing.

[newfie11]

5. I agree with everything you said

I don't understand this country any more

[progressoid]

3. Oh but it will be so much better when the administration privitizes Freddie and Fannie.

[Mojorabbit]

4. Will call in am. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

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