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Les espagnols manifestent en masse contre l'austérité. Occupy LA Takes Over Bank To Prevent Foreclosure (Updated) Earlier today, a family who has been wrongly foreclosed upon occupied a Citibank branch in Los Angeles. Crowds of protesters, including Occupy LA, gathered in the lobby to show support. The family, including four children, are facing homelessness in spite of having enough money to make payments. The protesters refused to leave until Freddie Mac negotiate to keep the family in their home.

Children from the family held signs saying "Freddie Mac Give Our Home Back" and protesters chanted "We Are the 99%" and "Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Old! " Around 1:15 PM Pacific Time, dozens of armed police arrived and threatened to arrest the entire family. Legal observers with the National Lawyers Guild were on hand. The Occupy Our Homes movement has continued to grow since it began last November. Also today, Occupy Denver disrupted a foreclosure auction: Update, 2/17: This morning, OWS shut down the NY-Queens Foreclosure Auction through non-violent direct action!

Occupy4Prisoners. #F20 National Occupy Day In Support of Prisoners: Statement from Formerly Incarcerated People. Updated with new cities and actions! This Monday, Feb. 20th, is the National Occupy Day of Action In Support of Prisoners. For information on events in Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Durham, Eureka, Fresno, Indio, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, SF Bay Area, and Washington, DC, see here. Prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary will refuse food in solidarity on Monday. The following statement was issued by a group of formerly-incarcerated members of All of Us Or None and Occupy For Prisoners. To the Occupy Oakland family, all supporters of Occupy Oakland, and the larger Occupy Wall Street movement: We are writing to appreciate everyone who has ever supported PEOPLE inside jails, prisons, and detention facilities throughout the country.

Feb 20th is a National Day to support PEOPLE inside cages who express their solidarity with the 99% and to support PEOPLE seeking social, economic, and other forms of justice. With Humility, Interview Alain Grandjean. Occupy Chicago Joins the Fight Against the Prison-Industrial Complex | Occupied Chicago Tribune. Metropolitan Detention Center. Photo by John Picken, Creative Commons. On Monday, Occupy Chicago and the larger Occupy movement across the country took to the streets for a day of action to demand a radical reform of the U.S. “prison–industrial complex.” In Chicago, around one hundred Occupy activists and a number of other organizations focused on prisoners’ rights gathered at Jackson and La Salle, the former Occupy head quarters.

By 5 p.m. the protesters were ready to stage a symbolic march around The Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), a prison ominously placed on Clark and Van Buren, right in the middle of the Loop. In a conversation with the Occupied Chicago Tribune, Megan Selby, a member of Occupy Chicago and one of the organizers of Monday’s protest said: “Up until recently a lot of work against the PIC [prison industrial complex] in Chicago, and around the country, has been done in silos.

“Women and the LGBTQ community have been increasingly targeted by the police. Un nuage de protestations. Depuis le mois de décembre, Occupy hiberne. Loin de constater un désamour, ses partisans se préparent à mieux ressurgir au printemps. Une hypothèse très crédible pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales, qui s'expliquerait par la notion de cloud protesting.

Ou nuage de protestations. Restructuration. Le terme revient sans cesse. Lancé il y a cinq mois, le mot d’ordre des “99%” fait sans aucun doute partie d’un certain imaginaire collectif aujourd’hui. Jamais je n’aurais imaginé qu’une idée politique puisse entraîner un tel enthousiasme collectif. Mais l’unité d’Occupy s’arrête là. Même si, globalement, l’étiquette “Occupy” accompagne des actions de plus en plus ciblées. C’est d’abord sur Facebook et Twitter que la variété du mouvement s’exprime. Si cette diversité n’écorne pas nécessairement la réputation du mouvement, elle révèle toutefois à quel point il est simple de revendiquer son appartenance à Occupy à l’heure d’Internet. Occupy a d’ailleurs très vite compris l’intérêt du visuel. Occupy Piccolo! Chicago Communities Occupy School In Protest of Privatization. Posted 2 years ago on Feb. 18, 2012, 5:39 a.m.

EST by OccupyWallSt The Brian Piccolo Specialty School in Humboldt Park, Chicago is currently Occupied by parents, teachers, and students. Occupy Chicago and other allies are outside the building in solidarity and have set up an encampment. Around one hundred people are present and are taking shifts to ensure the safety of the occupation. Updates, 2/18 3:30AM Central Time: It is believed that Chicago Police have decided to leave and protesters have declared victory for Day 1 of Occupied Piccolo! Via Occupy Chicago Press: Declaration #1 from Piccolo Occupation 11:49pm - February 17th, 2012 We, the Piccolo Occupation, are putting our childrens' education first. The Chicago Public Schools is in violation of its own remediation and probation policy.

Because CPS has been not willing to meet with or listen to us, this is what we want: 1) A meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel 2) A meeting with at least five of the Chicago School Board members present. Piccolo is Occupied! Declaration #1 from Piccolo Occupation. A Point of View: Wall St back in the firing line. 17 February 2012Last updated at 19:02 Criticism is being levied at bankers in the US, where opinion does not divide neatly along party lines. But it is mild compared with some previous attacks, such as the ferocious and sustained one unleashed by Franklin D Roosevelt, writes David Cannadine.

It is not surprising that the criticism of bankers that's occurring in Britain is also taking place on the other side of the Atlantic. There may be no exact American equivalent to depriving the former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland of his knighthood - or to his successor feeling compelled by the weight of public opinion to give up his bonus - but the signs of public hostility to American bankers, those Masters of the Universe, whom Tom Wolfe earlier denounced in The Bonfire of the Vanities, are also widespread, and may even be intensifying. As this suggests, the issue of bankers and bonuses doesn't divide neatly along party lines.

Obama is pushing a "politics of fairness" approach. #OccupyGreece ? Greece 2o12.