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How Spreading The Wealth Rescued A Mother Thanks To CODEPINK and ANP
As corporate media reports obsessively on Joe The Plumber, who misrepresented himself to Barack Obama saying he'd be victimized by Obama's tax plan, Americans more in need than Joe are being victimized for REAL everyday - not in hypothetical ways like Joe's imagined fears of paying rich people's taxes even though he isn't rich. But in ways that jeopardize every aspect of their existence due to the collusion between the American government and the financiers it loves.
So who is Jocelyne Voltaire, and why is her story more relevant to America's current crisis than that of plumber Joe?
Jocelyn Voltaire is an emigre from Haiti who has lived in this country for 45 years. She's a United States citizen, a college graduate, and the mother of four. She recently suffered the unbearable loss of her eldest son - a Marine who had served in the Gulf. Atop the unthinkable pain of losing a child, Jocelyne's Queens, New York home of twenty years was set to be auctioned on Friday (October 17th), due to a predatory lender scam.
But miracles do happen!! Thanks to the brilliant work of independent media, American News Project (ANP), which captured Jocelyn's story in the video below, and CODEPINK Women For Peace, who after seeing ANP's video launched an appeal for funds to stop the auction, Jocelyn's home was saved. Miraculously, in one day, CODEPINK raised $30,000 from 650 patriots who stepped up to "spread THEIR wealth." Below is the incredible video produced by American News Project that captured the "heart" of CODEPINK and inspired Jocelyne's patriotic "angels."
Needless to say, corporate media was much too busy camped out at the home of plumber Joe to pay Jocelyne Voltaire any mind. It took the efforts of independent media heroes ANP, generous spread-the-wealth patriots, and the inspired community organizing of CODEPINK to let humanity prevail. As CODEPINK says,
So who is Jocelyne Voltaire, and why is her story more relevant to America's current crisis than that of plumber Joe?
Jocelyn Voltaire is an emigre from Haiti who has lived in this country for 45 years. She's a United States citizen, a college graduate, and the mother of four. She recently suffered the unbearable loss of her eldest son - a Marine who had served in the Gulf. Atop the unthinkable pain of losing a child, Jocelyne's Queens, New York home of twenty years was set to be auctioned on Friday (October 17th), due to a predatory lender scam.
But miracles do happen!! Thanks to the brilliant work of independent media, American News Project (ANP), which captured Jocelyn's story in the video below, and CODEPINK Women For Peace, who after seeing ANP's video launched an appeal for funds to stop the auction, Jocelyn's home was saved. Miraculously, in one day, CODEPINK raised $30,000 from 650 patriots who stepped up to "spread THEIR wealth." Below is the incredible video produced by American News Project that captured the "heart" of CODEPINK and inspired Jocelyne's patriotic "angels."
Needless to say, corporate media was much too busy camped out at the home of plumber Joe to pay Jocelyne Voltaire any mind. It took the efforts of independent media heroes ANP, generous spread-the-wealth patriots, and the inspired community organizing of CODEPINK to let humanity prevail. As CODEPINK says,
While our government has taken billions of our tax dollars to bail out the wealthy, we came together to bail out a desperate mother... We modeled exactly what we want our government to do - bail out families facing personal disaster, not financiers.
Now, MY FRIENDS, isn't this the REAL America we want??!! Not the America of corporate greed and CEO bail outs. Not the America of Wall Street fat cats rescued by their elected and appointed government friends. Not the America of selfishness, avoiding taxes, and only caring about ME!!