The ongoing economic crisis has created one of the longest and largest mass displacements in US history. While profiting from government bailouts, banks have evicted more than ten million Americans from their homes, their life savings, and their dreams. With humanity and power, Laura Gottesdiener tells the heroic stories of the ordinary people who organize against foreclosures, fight against the banks, and win. Told through the eyes of four homemakers - a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a mentally disabled man in Chattanooga, and a mother in Chicago - A Dream Foreclosed presents a people's history of the US housing crisis and the rise of a people's movement for economic justice, dignity, and freedom from foreclosure. Woven throughout the page-turning narrative are clear explanations of the origins of the crisis, the history of public housing, and the limitations of the profit-driven housing system. Drawing on the victories, debates, and actions of organizers across the country, A Dream Foreclosed is the story of a nation traumatized by a predatory financial system and the inspiring efforts of people who rise up to organize, defend their homes, and fight back against corporate power and greed. Laura Gottesdiener has written for Ms. magazine, The Huffington Post, The Arizona Republic, New Haven Advocate, and other publications. She was actively involved in the Occupy movement and lived in Zuccotti Park from early October 2011 until the police eviction of mid --- from the publisher About the Authors: Laura Gottesdiener: Laura Gottesdiener is a freelance journalist and social justice activist living in New York City. She has written for The Huffington Post, Ms. magazine, The Arizona Republic, The New Haven Advocate and other publications. She won the John Hersey Prize at Yale University for a body of journalistic work and was a national finalist for the Norman Mailer Nonfiction Award for her 2009 investigation of girls' wrestling. he was actively in the Occupy movement and lived inZuccotti Park from early October 2011 until the NYPD raid of November 15, 2011. A Dream Foreclosed: The Great Eviction and the Fight to Live in America is her first book. R. Black: R. Black is a graphic artist whose posters are widely used in the Occupy movement. His web site is: http://rblack.org/ |