@OccupyOurHomes The People Occupy Occupy our Homes Baltimore June 12, 2012|By Jessica Lewis, Alex Bennett and Saba Nazeer Those who rely on mainstream media to tell them what's happening can be forgiven for coming to the same opinion as ex-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who wrote in his recent column "Capitalism on trial" (June 3) that the Occupy movement has disintegrated. While aggressive law enforcement has prevented Occupy in many cities from re-establishing a prolonged and public presence, activists have put their energy to use by linking with community and neighborhood activists to fight the most visible footprint of the speculative 1 percent: foreclosed-upon homes. Occupy Our Homes Baltimore, one of a number of local activist groups that has emerged from the Occupy Baltimore demonstration last October, is currently visiting the homes of families targeted for foreclosure in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore. Similar Occupy Our Homes' groups have formed around the country. This is a mystery to us.
Occupy Your Bank #OWS Scoop.it Exclusive Behind The Scenes With Occupy Wall Street Daniel Goodman / Business Insider The big protests and the public occupation of Zuccotti Park that raise attention and disrupt the normal schedule of daily life have been widely covered by the media. But how do these actions really get planned? Click here to see what it was like to organize Occupy Our Homes > We went behind the scenes at Occupy Our Homes in Brooklyn with Karanja Gaçuça, a former Wall Street analyst turned activist. Gaçuça is an active member of the Occupy Wall Street movement affiliated with the New York City General Assembly. In the beginning, Gaçuça was simply attending meetings on the Occupy Our Homes action to serve as media liaison. "It became a very personal action about needing to make sure that this one family who needs a home gets into a home that is reclaimed for them," he said. After a few years he moved to London to pursue a Master's Degree at the London School of Economics. Gaçuça told to us how the Occupy Our Homes action started:
@OccupyYourBank1 We ARE the 99 Percenters ! In history, the FBI has infiltrated the mob, some 1% biker gangs, white Aryan resistance , KKK, Neo-Nazis, and more groups. For the majority of these groups, arguably, there were actually bad people, many of them committing murder, selling drugs, in short, engaging in much of what legally would be called “malum in se” meaning, something like murder or child abuse, something that is wrong from a moral and ethical viewpoint. There are other classes of “crimes” which are called “malum prohibitum” meaning they are wrong solely because you have passed a law making them wrong. Making alcoholic beverages and selling them, became malum prohibitum with passage of the Volstead Act…even though, beer and wine had been made for centuries…and it was not illegal then, so, for a period of time, alcohol production, sale, distribution became malum prohibitum, but really, in the minds of most, it was never malum in se. I have been someone who generally has tried to not violate laws most of my life. (d) (i)
Occupy’s next frontier: Foreclosed homes Occupy Wall Street is promising a “big day of action” Dec. 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest “fraudulent lending practices,” “corrupt securitization,” and illegal evictions by banks. The day will mark the beginning of an Occupy Our Homes campaign that organizers hope will energize the movement as it moves indoors as well as bring the injustices of the economic crisis into sharp relief. Many of the details aren’t yet public, but protesters in 20 cities are expected to take part in the day of action next Tuesday. “This is a shift from protesting Wall Street fraud to taking action on behalf of people who were harmed by it. The backdrop for all this is a new study suggesting the foreclosure crisis is only half over, with 4 million homes in some stage of foreclosure. Like many of the Occupy actions that have focused on specific policy questions, this one is being organized by established progressive and labor-affiliated groups along with their allies in the movement.
Occupy the European Central Bank from Dean Baker In the last month, people from around the country and around the world have picked up on the Occupy Wall Street theme of retaking the country from the wealthy. Insofar as this sentiment gathers force in Europe, there is probably no place better for people to plant themselves than on the steps of the European Central Bank (ECB). More than any other institution the ECB is responsible for the economic wreckage that has overtaken the European economy. In the years when housing bubbles were building across the much of the eurozone and the United States, the ECB looked the other way. This single-minded obsession with the inflation rate at a time when the economies of the eurozone and the world were on the edge of disaster is akin to Kodak insisting that its business line was photographic film at a time when digital photography was exploding. But the ECB ignored the housing bubbles and the economy came crashing down around them. The ECB has been much less ambitious.
occupy blogosphere 'Occupy Our Homes' Campaign Brings Protests to Foreclosed Homes A subset of Occupy Wall Street protesters across the country are bringing their fight indoors with plans to stay in foreclosed homes for months. The group launched a national campaign on Tuesday called Occupy Our Homes -- literally living in the homes of foreclosed homeowners, giving temporary reprieve from the bitter cold. Nick Espinosa, one of the organizers of Occupy Minneapolis, which officially launched Oct. 7, said Minnesota's cold makes it difficult for people to spend the winter outdoors, where the temperature is forecasted to reach a low of two degrees on Thursday just as Hennepin County authorities removed unattended tarps and chairs at the plaza outside the Minneapolis government center, the Associated Press reported. The numbers at the plaza fluctuate, but they are "dwindling," Espinosa said. "It makes sense to be indoors but really this is a larger issue," he said. Peter Leeman/Kyle Kehrwald Postal Service Could Eliminate 1-Day Delivery Watch Video "They haven't said much.
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