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Voices Of Hope & Change by Martin Andelman

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Real Estate Agent with Fathom Realty SA538039000

A Hundred Thousand Homeowners - Voices of Hope & Change
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:12 PM PST

I spend time talking with homeowners every single day. I listen to their stories day after day and it's so painful, because I feel so helpless.  Many times I want to scream. The foreclosure crisis that has been allowed to continue in this country must be stopped, and I'm quite sure it would have been months ago... if homeowners had a powerful lobby in Washington... if America's homeowners had a voice that could be heard.
Well, this next year is a very important election year on both sides of the aisle, and to the Obama Administration.  And it's time for the voices of homeowners to be heard.
I'd like to think that there is no stronger or more outspoken advocate for homeowners in this country than Mandelman Matters, and we started filming homeowners at risk of foreclosure for a documentary on the crisis over a year ago.  Since then, we've been looking for the "right" project... one that would carry the voices of distressed homeowners to the politicians on both sides of the aisle, to the bankers and mortgage servicers, to the media, and to the nation as a whole... and we've now found that "right" project in "A Hundred Thousand Homeowners - Voices of Hope & Change".
"A Hundred Thousand Homeowners" is a documentary that will deliver a cacophony of outrage at the way our government has addressed the foreclosure crisis.  It will make loud the voices of a hundred thousand homeowners.

The finished documentary, will be distributed using the power of the Internet, but it will also be distributed on DVD, wrapped in high-impact "A Hundred Thousand Homeowners" packaging.  It will land on the desks of every single elected representative in the House of representatives and the U.S. Senate.  It will be sent to the governors of all 50 states... to every single banking industry CEO... to every major media outlet.  It will be seen, the voices it represents will be heard, and the story will be told.
We need everyone's help to make this happen, and it's far too important to be allowed to fail.  People ask me all the time how they can help.  Well, here's how.  Together we can be heard... together we will make a difference.
The Documentary: A Hundred Thousand Homeowners
A Hundred Thousand Homeowners will open with President Obama's speech introducing his Making Home Affordable program, which was to help millions, but has fallen far short of its goals.  It will include interviews with real homeowners... unscripted... as they share what they've been forced to endure trying to save, or losing their homes.
It will deliver the real numbers of loan modifications, the real costs of the failed program, and the real need to do something to fix what's so clearly broken... NOW.  It will illustrate why it's not homeowners who are at fault, for it was not they that caused this catastrophe... without question it was the banks and investment banks that brought us to where we are today.
The federal programs that have been put in place to rescue those banks and their shareholders and investors, have cost the American taxpayer trillions.  While the American homeowner has received little more than a series of broken promises and outright lies.
I've written close to 200 articles on Mandelman Matters to-date, and if you've read even one, you know that I'm quite capable of breaking eggs when an omelet is ordered.  I don't pull any punches, and I'm not beholding to anyone but myself.
A Hundred Thousand Homeowners will be a wake-up call in Washington D.C.  It will send the very clear message that doing nothing is not an option... that favoring the banks over the American people, at a time like this, can only result in being voted out of office.  The voices any one American homeowner may be faint to the point of being inaudible, but the voices of A Hundred Thousand Homeowners will be deafening as the sound echoes through the halls of our legislature, and into the Oval Office.

A Virtual March on Washington...
Everyone can join this virtual march on Washington but there is a minimum cost to participate: $1.00.  That's "one dollar," just so everyone's clear about this.  And by contributing one dollar, you're name will be listed as one of the 100,000 voices, if you want it to be... or kept anonymous, if you'd prefer it that way.
By contributing $1.00, you'll be supporting something important... something that will be heard... something that has to at least start to make a difference, because when politicians see that 100,000 people have taken the time to support something, they know that behind those 100,000 are many more who feel the same way.

Of course, you can decide to send more... you could send $5, or $10, or even $20 in support of the project.  The thing about producing a video program is that you can always do more... interview more people, increase its production values, license music.  And you can trust that we will use as much as we receive to make the documentary have that much more impact.  If we receive $150,000, we'll be able to use a celebrity host or voice... if we receive more, we may be able to air the program on cable.
But, all we need to make it happen is $1.00 from 100,000 people who understand what Mandelman Matters is all about, and want their voice to be heard.  Who knows... if everyone loves what we accomplish, maybe we'll do it again... and again.  I have to believe that at some point... the madness of the foreclosure crisis will have to be stopped, because in the end, this is still very much a country of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Please take the time to send in your $1.00 today.  Time is of the essence, and it's not easy to get 100,000 people to do anything.  So, send your dollar now, and help spread the word by asking others to do the same.  We plan to have the documentary program completed and distributed by Valentine's Day, but we can't do it without everyone's support.
You can send your dollar via credit card and Pay Pal by clicking on the "Contribute to the Cause" button, which you'll find at the top right of the Mandelman Matters site.  Or you can send a check to:
Mandelman Matters/A Hundred Thousand Homeowners
1472 Marelen Drive
Fullerton, CA 92835
Performance Guarantee: Although I don't foresee this being an issue, in the unlikely event that we do not receive sufficient funds to complete and distribute the project, we will donate all excess proceeds to Homes for Our Troops, which assists severely injured service men and women and their immediate families, supplying building materials and professional labor and coordinating the process of building new adapting existing homes with handicapped accessibility.

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