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Evict Chase! NYU Students for #OWS Action Today

April 12, 2012, 10:53 am + 44

Join us for a street theater-filled demonstration to get NYU to cut its ties with JP Morgan Chase with New York University students for Occupy Wall Street.

When: Thursday, April 12 at 5 p.m.
Where: In front of Bobst Library, 70 Washington Sq. South.

Pursuant to the basic respect for the fundamental human right to housing, the New York University community hereby notifies JP Morgan Chase, the leader in foreclosures in New York, that it will be evicted from the university, effective immediately. Until the bank halts foreclosures, we call on the NYU administration to cut its ties to Chase. Stand with NYU4OWS, New York Communities for Change and the NYU community as we deliver Chase’s eviction notice to NYU President John Sexton.

Learn more about the campaign. Join the Facebook event.

Housing is a Human Right!

On March 27, NYU4OWS delivered a letter to NYU President John Sexton demanding that he:

Make publicly available all of NYU’s financial relationships to JP Morgan Chase
Cut all financial ties to Chase unless they stop foreclosing on homeowners in New York immediately
Make a public statement in support of the communities affected by the crisis, and condemning JP Morgan Chase’s predatory and abusive practices.

JP Morgan Chase is the leader in foreclosures in New York. Only 6% of Chase serviced borrowers who asked for help have received a permanent loan modification. Chase has started more than 22,000 foreclosures and rejected 334,462 families for the federal Home Affordable Modification Program.

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OccupyWallSt

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

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