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Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala said that, were she and presidential candidate Jill Stein to win Tuesday’s election, the first thing they’d do would be to “turn the White House into the ‘green house’ and enact a moratorium on foreclosures in the United States of America.” The Green Party is on the ballot in 36 states and the District of Columbia, and can appear as write-ins in seven more states.

“The Democrats and Republicans are never gonna talk about home foreclosures,” Honkala told an Occupy Homes rally in South Minneapolis late last month. “They’ve participated in bailing out the banks across this country, and quite frankly they don’t give a damn about poor and working people. Already eight million families have lost their homes to foreclosure. How many more families have to lose their homes, and how many more have to be broken up and destroyed? There’s no words to the damage they’re doing to young people.”

Honkala is the first formerly homeless woman to run for the nation’s highest office. “My journey started on 38th Ave when my oldest son was nine years old and homeless, and on a cold winter’s night we housed ourselves in an abandoned house to keep me and my oldest son Mark from freezing to death on the streets of Minneapolis,” she said at a rally for the Cruz family, who were evicted from their home on Cedar Ave last summer. Despite a campaign by Occupy Homes, lender Freddie Mac has refused to renegotiate a loan with the Cruz family. Their house is now for sale.

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