Leave it to Rachel:
"When they came and offered their help, what did you think?"
"I thought, hey, it sounds like a crazy, hairbrained scheme; let's try it, what the heck. ((Shrug))
"I don't have anything more to lose."
(Starting about 2:30 in)
Are you disgusted by reading about banks trying to foreclose on 103-year old women? Or a single mother with four kids?
Do you get ill reading about people losing their homes because they have a medical crisis?
Do you curse in multiple languages when you read about how with one hand, a bank will extend a mortage-modification plan to a distressed homeowner and with the other, begin (and conclude) foreclosure procedings?
Do you want to throw up as you note that there are millions of homeless, while vast number of houses sit unoccupied?
Are you outraged that banks got billions of dollars in bailout monies from a government which is supposed to represent the people? While millions of citizens are being tossed out of their homes for lack of any aid from this same government?
Then have I got a low-interest homeowners' loan Day of Action for You!
Tomorrow (or today, as your time zone or diary-reading schedule may indicate), December 6th, a National Day of Action against foreclosures and evictions will take place. Find an event near you.
Tuesday, December 6th is the National Day of Action to stop and reverse foreclosures. The Occupy Homes movement is holding actions around the country in support of homeowners and people fighting to have a home.
There are actions happening in over 20 cities nationwide. Events are taking place in Brooklyn, Buffalo and Rochester New York; Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Petaluma, Sacramento and Contra Costa California; Lake Worth, Florida; Atlanta, Fayetteville, and DeKalb Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Cleveland, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Detroit and Southgate Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington
In Oakland, there are at least three, and quite possibly more, events taking place all through the day. Can I manage all of them?
9:30am: ACCE & The Home Defender’s will be meeting @ Snow Park (20th & Harrison by the Lake) for a "Speak out on Foreclosures" to stop the sale of homes prior to the Holiday Season!
12:00 PM
West Oakland BART
Description: The Occupy Wall Street movement and brave homeowners around the country are coming together to say, "Enough is enough." We, the 99%, are standing up to Wall Street banks and demanding they negotiate with homeowners instead of fraudulently foreclosing on them. Join us on December 6 for a national day of action to fight back against the housing crisis and be part of the continuing movement to Occupy Our Homes.
2pm: Causa Justa::Just Cause and Occupy the Hood will be rallying and marching from West Oakland BART to demand the Banks work with an Oakland Family to put them back in their home.
(these last two may be the same event with times misreported)
4pm: Occupy Oakland, ACCE and allies will be meeting @ Defremery Park on 16th & Adeline St. in West Oakland to support families who plan to Reclaim their Homes and fight back against the attack on working families across the country!
Keep tabs on actions by following the #OccupyHomes hashtag on twitter.
Or better yet, get up and out and help make the world just a little worse off for a bankster near you.
Mon Dec 05, 2011 at 10:09 PM PT: The Just Cause event is definitely at 2:00 PM
8:07 AM PT: Mother Jones article on foreclosure actions with nationwide map
8:13 AM PT: Some tweets
MMFlint Michael Moore
Today's the day! @OccupyOurHomes begins as #OWS joins with other great orgs in nat'l direct actions vs foreclosures j.mp/tIxucY
1 hour ago
Retweeted by OccupyHomes
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OWSAtlanta Occupy Atlanta
Almost time for #OccupyHomes actions to begin! Three foreclosure auctions to be disrupted in about 10 minutes.
1 hour ago
8:15 AM PT: New York is marching on foreclosures.
OccupyBKGA Occupy Brooklyn
At 1 pm, #OccupyBrooklyn will join @OccupyWallStNYC at the intersection of Livonia & Pennsylvania for the Foreclosure Tour March. #d6 #ows
8:18 AM PT: Excellent messaging.
OccupyHomes Occupy Homes
Local govts waging war against illegal public park invasions. #occupyhomes waging war against illegal private home invasions #ows
2 hours ago
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OccupyHomes Occupy Homes
To evict someone from their home, banks MUST prove standing and authentic documents. Lacking this, they intimidate families. No more. #ows
9:05 AM PT: OccupyHomes follow-the-action twitter list
9:10 AM PT: Vet Facing Foreclosure: ‘I’ve Served My Time In Vietnam And I’m Not Afraid To Fight Again’"
One of the homes the 99 Percent will be trying to save is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There, veteran Bobby Hull is facing eviction from the home he has lived in since he was a child. After running into health problems where he was in and out of surgery, he was unable to make payments to his bank, US Bank.
Now, he’s facing a possible eviction from the home that’s been in his family’s possession since 1968. He wants to work, and he wants to keep his home. But US Bank refuses to work with him. But he’s not afraid. “I’ve served my time in Vietnam and I’m not afraid to fight again,” he says. Today, Occupy Minneapolis will be standing with him to help keep his home in his posession.
9:10 AM PT: Off to first meetup/action at Snow Park.
11:29 AM PT: Looks like good stuff is happening in NYC
allisonkilkenny allisonkilkenny
"There are more foreclosed homes than homeless people in new york city." -vocal ny rep #d6 #OWS
thinkprogress ThinkProgress
Huge win for Occupy Wall Street in New York. Cuomo reverses course, agrees to tax increases for rich. thkpr.gs/rXeyA5 #ows
OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall Street
Third house reclaimed! Crowd chanting, "we will occupy every foreclosed home in every neighorhood in New York City!" #D6
11:29 AM PT: Snow Park action was small. About 30 people at peak. Marched a short distance to Chase and Wells Fargo, which locked their doors. Then marched back.