North Minneapolis "Arms Defense Plan" In Action: Photos From The Front Lines

Photos By John Hoff

Here are some images and stories from tonight's meeting at the Urban League, see previous post, to send volunteers into the neighborhoods and find holders of long ARM, subprime mortgages to (hopefully) get them financial counseling if they need it to avoid foreclosure.

From top to bottom:

1.) We didn't have too many volunteers, or too few. We had just the right amount.

2.) Organizing the lists of homes. At one point, I saw a list actually being cut up with scissors.

3.) Three small portraits of neighborhood leadership. Many neighborhood leaders were there. Truthfully, there were more leaders than foot soldiers.

4.) Minnesota Public Radio and 5.) a reporter from the Star Tribune. Both scooped by this blog, of course. You read about it first on Johnny Northside Dot Com.

6.) Jerry Moore, Executive Director of the Jordan Neighborhood, gesturing as he talks with another volunteer.

7.) Proper headgear is essential for winter door-knocking. I asked an ACORN leader, tactfully, about this guy's rather distinctive dress. I found out Mad Hatter Dude is a very successful ACORN fundraiser. I guess he needs the rather large hat to collect all that money, baby.

8.) One of the squads of volunteers moments before walking out in the cold to go door knocking.

9.) Jeff Skrenes wearing his "chook," knitted by his grandmother in Upper Michigan. Jeff says he's had the cap since he was 4 years old. Jeff apparently had to grow into his brain.

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