Since April 30, Occupy Homes MN has been working with the Cruz family, whose home went into foreclosure when PNC Bank mishandled an online payment. Although PNC executives have acknowledged their error and repeatedly told Cruz supporters that they are working on a solution, their actions have shown the opposite. They have refused to work with the family, instead working with Freddie Mac and the city of Minneapolis to launch a series of costly police raids against home, resulting in 23 arrests in less than a week.
The city of Minneapolis has spent over $42,429 of public resources to defend the banks’ eviction and keep the family and their supporters out of their own home. http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/06/police_efforts_at_now-foreclosed_cruz_family_home_cost_taxpayers_42429.php
Despite ongoing protests, PNC still thinks we’ll go away if they ignore us long enough. It’s time to show them otherwise: on June 19, Alejandra and David Cruz will be travelling along with a team of supporters to PNC’s Pittsburgh headquarters to hand-deliver their modification documents and demand a meeting with CEO Jim Rohr! Occupy Homes MN callsfor a national day of action on PNC to coincide with the Cruz’s arrival on Thursday, June 21.
TUESDAY JUNE 19: caravan: http://www.facebook.com/events/310205149071280/
WEDNESDAY JUNE 20: the Cruz family will make a stop at Freddie Mac’s regional headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday to demand they stop tearing up our neighborhoods with their eviction profiteering.
Atlanta: http://www.facebook.com/events/345327975539867/
Chicago
Cincinnati: http://www.facebook.com/events/135234656614011/
Minneapolis: http://www.facebook.com/events/443066159051838/
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
St. Louis: http://www.facebook.com/events/288991261199740/
Washington, DC
And many more to come! Please, organize an event in your city!
To add your PNC action to the list in solidarity with the Cruz family, contact and people going through foreclosure across the country, contact [email protected] and post your event on the wall.
Follow @occupyhomesMN and search #cruzhome on Twitter.
In the meantime, feel free to flood the inboxes and voicemails of Freddie Mac and PNC execs and demand they negotiate with the Cruz family and give them back their home.
Freddie Mac:
Brad German
[email protected]
general press line: (703) 903-3933
PNC:
Fred Solomon, PR director of PNC Bank
412-600-2628, cell
412-762-7544, direct
Diana Reid
Executive Vice President
(212) 527-3946
[email protected]
Romella Haiyder
Vice President Business banker
212-661-2349
[email protected]
Sawra Safi
Vice President-Workplace Banking
(212) 210-9910
[email protected]
Marc Hansen
Vice President Relationship Manager
212-752-6044
[email protected]
Barbara Lamb
Director of Loans
212-224-4000
[email protected]
Kevin Madigan
Vice President
212-303-0054
[email protected]
Thomas Hyland
Senior Vice President
[email protected]
(412) 762-2000
Craig Stillwagon
Executive Vice President
(770) 551-8222
[email protected]
Stephen Shelton
Vice President/Business Credit
(212) 303-0042
[email protected]
Parameswar Sivaramakrishnan
Vice President-Business Credit
212-752-6092
[email protected]
Sara Traberman
Vice President
[email protected]
(212) 223-3925
Alan Tischbein
Senior Vice President-Team Leader
[email protected]
(212) 752-6094
Thomas Thompson
Vice President
(212) 223-3925
[email protected]