The sleeping sheeple are beginning to stir...

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It would seem that the housing crisis may be the thing that begins waking people up to the realities of their world. In a short time they have gone from managing their financial lives in homes bought with ARM mortgages and now that they have begun resetting to higher interest rates, combined with inflation and high fuel prices, can no longer keep it together. And, the more they hear about how they were lured into this mess and now are about to lose everything, the more angry they will become. The question is, at what point does the anger reach critical mass?

A Dorchester woman facing eviction following the foreclosure of her home won a last-minute reprieve this morning after dozens of activists gathered outside to impede law enforcement officials from entering.

Melonie Griffiths-Evans defaulted on a mortgage loan arranged by a broker who has since been barred from working in Massachusetts. Facing a 9 a.m. eviction, Griffiths-Evans had refused to pack, saying that God was on her side.

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Shortly after 9 a.m., a City Life organizer said the eviction had been postponed and celebration erupted. Some people chanted, "We fight, we win." Griffiths-Evans repeatedly thanked her supporters.

"The bankers need to know we're going to do the same thing for everyone," she said.

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