7 August 2009
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Phone: (203) 668-0282
Url: www.humanitarian.net
Global Arts Integration Into Education Initiative
Url: www.unarts.org
Country Music Association Artist Stephen Michael Apatow (Founder of Humanitarian
Resource Institute and Global Arts Integration Into Education
Initiative) has a message for the millions families, nonprofit
organizations, small businesses and corporations
in crisis: Someone Cares ! Our focus, to get assistance
to every
victim, in every community across the United States... on the global
scale,
every UN member country.
UNArts.org: Rock The World: Citizen Journalism - Reaching Our Leaders
United States
The size and scope of our current economic emergency has it's roots in
criminal predatory lending, mortgage and appraisal fraud, with many
crime victims left
in a state of economic despair, for the most part without emergency
assistance.
It's time that our leaders understand the full scope of this
economic
emergency:
- 18.2 % Unemployment:
Center
for Labor Market Studies at Boston's Northeastern University - There
are
now more than five unemployed workers for every job opening in the
United States. -- New York Times, 26 June 2009.
- 1.5 million foreclosures
in
the first 6 months of 2009 (CNN), with 8-12 million foreclosures
projected for the next 4 years. The current focus is emergency
intervention
to stop the arterial bleeding, as banks have refused White House
stabilization efforts to facilitate mortgage modifications and
principal writedowns. Crime victims of predatory
lending have asked for these loans to be
removed from these banks, with mortgages contracts rewritten at fair
market
value, perhaps by a government program with FEMA type loans.
- Bankruptcies at 6000 a day
in
March or one every 13 seconds (The New York Times: 3 April 2009).
- About half of U.S.
mortgages seen
underwater by 2011 (Reuters, 8.5.2009). This means that the
crisis will continue to spiral out of control, again due to criminal
predatory lending, mortgage and appraisal fraud. This emergency
requires modifications
of every one of these mortgage instruments, property tax appraisals
adjusted
to fair market value, etc., etc.
The
bottom
line is that the household level across America is in crisis, either
directly
or indirectly. In an effort to stop this arterial bleeding, a call is
being
made for victims in crisis (families, nonprofit organizations, small
businesses
and corporations) to focus on citizen journalism as our next priority, to
facilitate
full disclosure (mayor to the White House and media). If you are
in
crisis and in an economic emergency, your elected officials (municipal,
state,
federal), interfaith community and media need to understand the full
scope
of your dilemma. The objective is for you to (1) write
these stories,
your trials, impact on your family (or organization) and current needs
for
stabilization, (2) for you to identify your target audience and (3) to
advance
a communication strategy, with emphasis on FAX communication of that
material
directly to:
- Local,
state and national elected officials: Available by zip code on Congress.org.
- Local,
state and national media networks, contact information resource is a
starting
point available through Media
Awareness Project: . Again FAX is prioritized, but an email
backup
can be accessed on the Congress.org:
Media Guide that provides forms to send your message by form to
national
and local media contacts.
- This
represents a starting point, use creativity in regards to the
development
of your communication strategy.
UNArts.org: Rock the World: Local Events to Spotlight
Unmet
Needs of Frontline Programs
Rock The World: "Bridging Unmet Needs to Untapped
Resources" Artists/professionals, arts organizations, music
labels (management, arrangers, producers), film production and media
companies asked to join together in
the coordination of local events to spotlight the size and scope of
unmet
needs on the community level, strategic planning and development, with
emphasis
on reaching families and organizations in crisis, that have fallen
through
the cracks. Additional information is available on the Global
Arts Integration Into Education Initiative web site:
www.unarts.org
The goal is not to live in denial as our heroin fix for
the
day, only to be crushed by reality, forced into decision making in
response
to a crisis, that could have been completely avoided, but now is 100
times
larger.
Looking forward to progress,
Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
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