<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://52/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tr style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><td align="center" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><table width="620" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tr style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><td valign="bottom" align="left" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><img width="600" height="160" alt="" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6267/images/accebanner-email.jpg" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "></td></tr><tr style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><td align="right" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 15px; text-align: right; "><a target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=72Whr1DXHdMfTpIzdxz6fls98cCwtFnD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Friend us on Facebook</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ek%2FgII8FO5OwhDHa2CWBgAbCilVOnZAy" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Follow @calorganize</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="620" cellspacing="14" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tr style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><td width="517" valign="top" align="left" class="mainbar" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Dear Mark,</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><b style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Here’s the score. The people of Richmond 2, Wall Street criminals 0!</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With your help, we did it! We beat back the Wall Street-led campaign of threats, litigation, and a full-scale election-style campaign to end Richmond, CA’s program to help underwater homeowners in that city, using eminent domain if necessary.</p><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tbody style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><tr style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">On Tuesday night (well, really Wednesday morning), in an auditorium packed with hundreds of community members, many of them in bright yellow ACCE t-shirts, the City Council voted 4-3 to move forward with the Richmond CARES local principal reduction program plan that has inspired hope nationwide.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">That was the first victory this week and it is a really big deal.</p></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><img src="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6267/images/RichmondThankYou.jpg" width="250" height="167" alt="" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The importance of this victory cannot be overstated. If the lies and fear mongering of Wall Street bankers had been allowed to intimidate Richmond’s City Council into backing down, the entire Local Principal Reduction idea would have collapsed.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Instead, the movement is spreading. This week, San Francisco Supervisor Campos announced a resolution standing in solidarity with Richmond and exploring a similar program there. And in Seattle, more than 30 groups came together in the Reset Seattle Coalition and packed the Seattle City Council to launch an LPR campaign there, too.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Please take a moment to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WChZ%2B7%2B%2FWBDNyp2GwuAyqFs98cCwtFnD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">send an email of thanks</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Mayor of Richmond, Gayle McLaughlin, and the three other City Councilors – Jovanka Beckles, Tom Butt, and Jael Myrick – for standing up to Wall Street criminals and standing with Richmond’s underwater homeowners.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The second big victory from this week came on Thursday, when US District Court Judge Charles Breyer declined to grant an injunction – filed by Well Fargo and Deutsche Bank – to stop Richmond CARES before it even got started.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Your help in this fight has been critical. Nearly 25,000 of you signed petitions supporting Richmond and over 250 of you called Wells Fargo’s CEO to tell him to drop his lawsuit against the city. 300 people showed up at the vote on Tuesday, including over 150 from ACCE, and the vast majority of them praised the Council for taking this bold step and urged them to move forward with the program.</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oiMnK0F1qarJ9xhmEtYUIls98cCwtFnD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger; ">Can you thank the Mayor and three City Councilors who stood with the people of Richmond?</span></a></p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">We’re really proud of how ACCE and its allies were able to beat back the bankers’ attack and ensure that Richmond did the right thing. Thank you for standing up to Wall Street and being a part of this historic week of progress.</p><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">In solidarity,</p><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Melvin Willis, Richmond ACCE</p><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><a href="#top" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">Back to top</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0px auto; padding: 10px; text-align: center; width: 600px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; ">Grassroots community support allows us to keep organizing!<br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Contributions to ACCE are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MXmYqgJrZHtvqgqxgTC%2BNVs98cCwtFnD" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Click here to make a contribution.</a></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Lucida, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px auto; text-align: center; width: 620px; ">You have received this email through your subscription to ACCE's email list. 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