Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes, OWS Finds a New Frontier

AlterNet / By Sarah Seltzer

Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes, OWS Finds a New Frontier
As occupiers prepare to take over foreclosed homes, an exciting new phase of action on behalf of the 99 percent begins.

December 5, 2011 |


Today, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy movements around the country will "go out of the streets and into the homes" of the 99 percent to draw attention to the economic, social, and racial injustice of the foreclosure crisis.

Through vacant home reoccupations, eviction resistance actions, and foreclosure auction disruptions from Brooklyn to Atlanta to Minneapolis and beyond, activists will highlight the families and individuals who live with the threat of eviction ever looming or those who have already lost their homes but are barred from ones that sit empty, owned by banks.

"We want people to pick sides — are you going to side with a bank sitting on an empty house when there's record family homelessness in NYC? Or will you side with a homeless family that is really desperate for a better environment for their kids to grow up in?" says VOCAL-NY organizer Sean Barry, one of many activists involved in the New York City action, which will begin at 1 p.m. at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Livonia in East New York, Brooklyn.

Indeed, the optics are perfect for OWS: not only will the actions highlight the plight of America's families, but they will also point to the indifference and callousness of the 1 percent — the bankers and financiers who speculated on subprime mortgages, turned the other way knowing that many mortgages were being signed — or robosigned — to individuals who could never pay. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/153318/occupy_our_homes%3A_from_the_streets_to_foreclosed_homes%2C_ows_finds_a_new_frontier/

I'm glad to see the Occupy Movement innovating beyond simple protest. :woohoo: