[Occupymendocino] Note from Laurie about the Lynn and Joann tragedy.

[Richard Karch]

Hi OM Folks, Can we think of anyone who could document the Lynn and Joann travesty? rk
>> Hi Richard,
>> I've had a chance to think this over and talk w/Carmen.  Linn has a very compelling story and one I hope will be told in relation to their foreclosure and how it began a terrible chain of events.  Right now I really need to stay close to home, take care of the farm and animals and not commit to another film project.  Most folks don't realize how much work goes into even a short 20 min. film.  It's a big commitment.  Filmmakers used to be able to get grants for projects so that they could make their film and keep their life together too.   Those were the good old days.  I have to be careful and not over-extend myself because stress really affects my health and causes flair-ups of Crohn's disease which I've had for 45 years.
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>> Anyhow, I just wanted you to know that I haven't called Linn.  If I think of someone else who might want to cover Linn's story I'll let you know.
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>> Take care,
>> Laurie
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>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Richard Karch wrote:
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>>> Dear Laurie, 
>>> Last year, in my pursuit for Occupy justice I think I mentioned Lynn Turner, the locksmith, and how she got kicked/tricked out of her house in Mendocino by a foreclosure scheme pulled off by Wells Fargo.  She and her spouse, Joanna, had lived there for over 30 years and had finally decided to buy the place. It was katycorner from the Mendocino High south entrance. They had fixed it up and hung in there as elderly women trying to do the right thing. I wrote to you about their plight in hopes some more publicity would surface to help them... Alas nothing OM or anyone else could do, because they were so late asking for help.. They went homeless after that as Joanne's dementia worsened.
>>> Finally after a long bit of hunting they found a trailer in a park south of Fort Bragg right along the highway.  
>>> Joanne's dementia continued and Lynn reestablished as a locksmith. For the most part they felt most of the bad
>>> times were over. They were even enjoying the mobile court life. Not so...
>>> 
>>> On March18, Lynn was gone and Joanna phoned 911 and said Lynn was abusing her ( not so says Lynn) and the police came to 'protect' Joanna. ( Lynne told me about this in Harvest Mkt last week so it might be slightly different.)  But, the police and Protective Services decided to not allow Lynn in to help her partner. Said she couldn't come back for a week. Lynn told them how Joanna has dementia and that she doesn't even know how to start the heater. The powers prevailed. Lynn gets a phone call several days later and is told that Joanne has been killed by a pickup out on Highway I.  
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>>> At the last Occupy GA we were talking about how Mike Moore is trying to get GM execs to be prosecuted for the deaths they caused by not fixing bad key switches on their cars. My thought was that we have no idea of consequences of foreclosures.  HOw many people are displaced, children upset, folks made homeless, lose their lively hoods,  commit suicide. All this while virtually NO bankers have been prosecuted and we know people have died...
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>>> The event with Lynn and her spouse is just one of the tragedies we are finding out about. Are there many more locally or nationally? We don't know. Can foreclosures cause deaths. Yes.
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>>> Why did I write you?   I guess I hoped to have you document this local tragedy. Illuminate it.  Lynne says she be glad to talk to you. 962-0608.  Or, if you are unable to do it, to maybe think of media out there that could get on this the story while it still warm.
>>> 
>>> Best, Richard
>>> Here's the write up in the PD.
>>> http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140318/articles/140319546
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