<div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite"><div><strong>3 items in this email</strong></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div> 1. report on Brockton rally Thursday</div><div>
2. Notice of Malden tenant rally Tuesday</div><div> 3. How to get on the bus for NYC rally against Fannie and Freddie Sept. 12.</div>
<div> </div><div><strong><font size="4">1. Brockton Rally draws 45 members to 1454 Main St. Aug. 30.</font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="4">Fannie/Freddie victims tell their stories</font></strong>.<br> See attached press release</div>
<div><strong><font size="4">2. Malden Tenant Rally press advisory is below - Tuesday, Sept. 4, 10 am</font></strong></div><div> Medford Malden Tenants United continue to set the pace for a tenant movement that is growing again in response to unreasonable rent hikes. Theyt will protest at Alpha Management headquarters in Allston/Brighton at 59 Linden St.</div>
<div><strong><font size="4">3. Many people signing up for protest busses for Sept. 12.</font></strong></div><div> We plan to protest mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at their regional office in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 12. We will leave from the 1199 union hall at 150 Mt Vernon St. (parking available). Busses will leave at 8 am. The rally in NYC starts at 1 pm at Bryant Park and cointinue to Freddie regional HQ and Fannie municipal HQ nearby. There will be testimony from Fannie and Freddie Fighters (now being posted on the Tumblr site <a href="http://wearethefanniefreddie99.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://wearethefanniefreddie99.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://wearethefanniefreddie99.tumblr.com/</a>. Children/youth are welcome; this is a disciplined protest. One Boston school is filling up an entire bus all by itself! Busses will return the same day about 10 pm.</div>
<div> To sign up to get on board, contact Antonio Ennis at City Life <a href="tel:%28617-524-3541" value="+16175243541" target="_blank">(617-524-3541</a> or <a href="tel:617-922-6476" value="+16179226476" target="_blank">617-922-6476</a>).<br>
<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><p><strong>Medford Malden Tenants United Press Advisory</strong></p>
<p>For Immediate Attention</p>
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<p>Stop the no-fault evictions and illegal entries into apartments by Alpha Management</p>
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<p>Contact: Malden/Medford Tenants United (617) 2UNIFY/ <a href="tel:%28617%29286-4397" value="+16172864397" target="_blank">(617)286-4397</a>; <a href="mailto:maldentenantsunited@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:maldentenantsunited@gmail.com" target="_blank">maldentenantsunited@gmail.com</a>)</p>
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<p>Dateline: September 4, 2012</p>
<p>Malden and Medford tenants and their allies will be taking to the street again to call attention to the unreasonable rent increases, no-fault evictions and illegal entries into tenant apartment by Alpha Management and its owner, Anwar Faisal. Impacted tenants and supporters will demonstrate Tuesday, September 4th at 10:00 a.m. outside of the Alpha Management Corporate Office, 59 Linden St., Suite B1, Allston, MA 02134. Malden/Medford Tenants United (MTU) continues to ask Alpha to negotiate in good faith. MTU is an organization representing tenants living in the Malden and Medford apartment buildings purchased by Mr. Faisal on April 26, 2012.</p>
<p>Tenants in the Malden and Medford properties owned by Mr. Faisal have woken up to find Alpha employees illegally in their apartments, come back from work to find their apartment doors unlocked, observed Alpha employees trying to go into the apartments of tenants who are away at work. It also appears that Alpha has given master keys to real estate agents, and those agents are not only showing vacant apartment, but illegally entering and showing apartments of tenants who are not moving. The tenants involved in these incidents said they were not given any notice that someone was going to go into their apartments, and they said they had not requested anything from Alpha that would have required entry into their homes. Many women living alone in these buildings now feel unsafe. Under the prior owner, proper notice was always given, and there was never any problem arranging a mutually convenient time for the tenant to be home if the landlord needed to enter a tenant’s apartment.</p>
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<p>In the four months Faisal has owned the Malden and Medford properties, he has served evictions on about 100 units (out of 260 units), and more than 25% of tenants have moved out. Many more have signed short-term leases just to have time to find another apartment and escape Alpha. Even those who have signed such leases cannot escape Alpha’s harassment. Alpha has contacted several of those tenants claiming they have no record of the lease the tenants just signed the previous month. Then Alpha has tried to intimidate the tenants into signing another lease at a higher amount, threatening to evict them if they don’t sign the second lease. </p>
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<p>MTU presented a proposal to one of Alpha’s representative on August 23, 2012. The proposal included recommendations for Alpha to take to protect tenants’ safety and security. Alpha’s representative initially agreed to respond to the proposal by August 30th. On August 28th, Alpha called an MTU representative to say it wouldn’t be able to address the proposal for another two weeks because it was Alpha’s busiest time of year. Yet Alpha has the time to continue to intimidate, harass and illegally enter apartments.</p>
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<p>What: Demonstration to fight against the illegal entries into tenant apartments, no-fault evictions, and unreasonable rent increases by Alpha Management Co. and its owner, Mr. Anwar Faisal</p>
<p>When: Starting at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2012</p>
<p>Where: Alpha Management Corporate Office, 59 Linden St., Suite B1, Allston, MA 02134</p>
<p>Who: Tenants and allies of affected Malden and Medford tenants</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888">
<p>-- <br>
-Neighbor<br>
Malden/Medford Tenants United<br>
<a href="mailto:maldentenantsunited@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:maldentenantsunited@gmail.com" target="_blank">maldentenantsunited@gmail.com</a><br>
(617) 2UNIFY7/ <a href="tel:%28617%29%20286-4397" value="+16172864397" target="_blank">(617) 286-4397</a></p>
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