Oliver Moreno
Social Movements
MW
Recently in the news I heard about Wells Fargo banks were accused of foreclosure papers. In the article As Wells Fargo is Accused of Fabricating Foreclosure Papers, Will Banks Keep Escaping Prosecution? This article discusses how the Justice Department was filed an internal report. The Justice Department is targeting mortgage, the main reason for the internal report is fraud. The Justice Department's inspector stated, "Despite playing a central role in the nation's financial crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed wither a low priority or not a priority at all." This statement came after recent revealed internal Well Fargo documents appears to guide lawyers used on how to fabricate missing documents to foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo bank is the largest mortgage servicer in the United States.
Juan Gonzalez stated that the new internal report discusses the Justice Department greatly overstated its successes in targeting mortgage. Eric Holder who is a attorney general said that to filled lawsuit on behalf of homeowner victims for losses totaling more than 1 billion, yet the exact amount 91 % less, round 95 million.
The other article I read dealt with healthcare. This article Georgia Activists Confront GOP Rejection of Medicaid as Moral Mondays Spread Across South discusses the movement spreading across the South. Around 40 people were arrested in Georgia last Tuesday. The 40 people arrested were involved in protesting a bill that would bar the expansion of Medicaid. The state of Georgia has the fifth-highest number of uninsured people of any state in the country. According to the Affordable Care Act, 650,000 additional residents would qualify for Medicaid. The state of Georgia is one of a number of Republican led states that have opted out of such Medicaid expansion. The protest last Tuesday at Georgia State Senate was the largest.
Even though these two articles were about different topics, they showed that people should fight against injustice. Social movements are important for change. Persuasion is key to get people to join a cause. A key thing to remember is humans wrote the laws, so they can be unwritten by humans.
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