'Occupy' occupies seized homes

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Dec 7 - The Occupy Wall Street movement takes over abandoned and foreclosed homes in New York. Paul Chapman reports

‘Occupy’ protesters reclaiming foreclosed homes in 20 cities

By David Edwards

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

 

The 99 percent movement, which has been evicted from many of their encampments across the country, is finding common cause with thousands of homeowners who are also being evicted from their homes.

Even though the movement has often been criticized for a lack of defined goals, Tuesday’s “Occupy Our Homes” action in at least 20 cities makes it clear that they are standing up to banks to reverse foreclosures.

“We’re in the neighborhood in New York City that had the highest number of foreclosure filings in 2010 to send a message that the economy is failing the 99 percent,” Vocal New York organizer Sean Barry told Raw Story from a Brooklyn neighborhood as about 200 protesters chanted in the background.
 
“We’re here because [there are] a lot of empty buildings owned by Wall Street banks and we’re going to liberate them.”

 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/06/occupy-protesters-reclaiming-foreclosed-homes-in-20-cities/

Occupy Our Homes Takes Over Properties in New York and Chicago

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The latest installment of the Occupy Wall Street protests is an action begun Tuesday called Occupy Our Homes, the centerpiece of which comes as activists plan to move people into foreclosed homes to protest what they say are unfair lending practices by banks. There are 25 actions planned nationwide, with five actually involving protesters moving into homes. The rest of the actions are either demonstrations in support of homeowners resisting eviction or more direct actions such as the one in Denver where Occupy protesters planned to collect trash from in front of abandoned homes and deposit it at the front door of Mayor Michael Hancock.
The real focus is on taking back the foreclosed homes, and that's just gotten underway. After taking a house in New York at about 3:30 p.m., activists plan to reclaim another house in Chicago and three more in California -- one in Oakland and one in the Los Angeles area. As they happen, we'll provide coverage of the protesters' efforts to move families into the homes they've lost to foreclosure.
 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/occupy-our-homes-occupies-its-first-home/45832/

National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures

• National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures

  
  December, 06 2011
  Today is the Occupy Our Homes National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures. Actions are taking place in over twenty-five cities around America, as the Occupy movement joins with homeowners and people fighting for a place to live. Our system has been serving Wall Street, big banks, and the one percent. Clearly this has not worked. We are the 99% and we are reclaiming our homes.
  Follow this post for updates from around the country today. Go below to see videos from the day of action.
  7:36 PM: Occupy San Jose, Occupy Redwood City & ACCE marched with Gloria Takla to Chase bank and were able to delay her home's sale date until February 14. The bank also agreed to meet with her to discuss a loan modification.
  7:24 PM: News of victories in California with Occupy Oakland, ACCE Home Defenders League and community supporters: A West Oakland mother of three reclaimed her home earlier in the day. A delegation of a family under foreclosure threat met with Wells Fargo officials, who agreed to postpone the foreclosed home's sale. Disrupted the foreclosure auction at the Oakland county courthouse. More than a dozen homes were prevented from being auctioned.
  7:14 PM: A second foreclosed home in Atlanta has been re-occupied.
  7:03 PM: Photo from the action at Bobby Hull's house in Minneapolis.
  6:56 PM: In San Francisco, two additional homeowners have pledged to refuse to leave their homes. Five city supervisors signed a pledge to protect peoples' homes.
  5:26 PM: Members of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign and Occupy the Hood have used volunteer labor and donated materials to rehab a home so that it can house Ms. Shirley Henderson and two other homeless families. PHOTO.
  5:19 PM: A small victory from Seattle: After pressure from 30 OUR Washington members and 20 or more phone calls into Aurora Loans, Nikolin & Maria Fushazis were able to talk to the top executive at Aurora loans who committed to engage with them on a possible modification and with Freddie Mac, who owns the loan.
  4:49 PM: Report on Twitter says Occupy action in Alameda shut down a foreclosure auction at the court. Picture from the action.
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