Posted on 12/02/2011 3:35:25 PM PST by ColdOne
‘Occupy’ protesters and housing rights activists are planning to help families resist eviction from foreclosed homes and take control of vacant properties in some 25 U.S. cities on Tuesday, an effort aimed at focusing attention on the ongoing housing crisis and giving the movement a new focus after the dismantling of many of its encampments.
The protesters have been crafting proposals – often quietly to prevent police from learning about their intentions beforehand -- to defend families facing eviction or return others home. In Minneapolis, for example, they plan to help a Vietnam War veteran stay in his home, in New York, protesters will try to help a family get back into their house, and in Chicago, two sisters and their seven children will be moved into an abandoned single-family home, activists said.
"It’s part of a national day of action that we hope will kick off a wave of defenses and home re-occupations,” Max Berger, 26, told the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly late Thursday while requesting $6,400 in funding to buy tools for the project. "This is not just about one event; this is a huge frontier for us. We can do these kinds of actions all the time, and we should. And it doesn’t have to be just us. We got to do this one right so we can inspire people to do it theirselves.”
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I think Acorn tried this
Same people, different name.
” - - - I think Acorn tried this.”
Hmmmmm - - - . I remember that a lawyer for Acorn in Chicago had a last name of Obama. Probably just a coincidence.
C’mon up to Detroit! LOL
Crisis? Now I remember. A crisis is a type of commodity so valuable that it should never be allowed to go to waste. Do you suppose the authors of that particular philosophy might just have their hand in this particular pot of soup?
Methinks they do and have been right from the start.
Hell.. Detroit would GIVE them a house, probably a whole city block or two. Just please.. pretty please.. pay the property taxes would ya?
speaking of that.. how is occupy Detroit going? (wait? they are not there???)
>> C’mon up to Detroit! LOL
Hey, c’mon down to rural Texas! But beware: high probability of lead poisoning.
These vacant homes won’t have power, gas, water, rubbish collection, insurance. The cities and utility companies don’t do those things gratis.
So after about a month of none of these services, these homes will end up being corrupted with human filth and garbage just like the Occupy sites in the city parks. Their remaining market value will collapse, and they will be bulldozer bait.
Collectivists don’t think very far ahead.
The only land I occupy belongs to me. The same danger exists here.
They retreat to the damnable suburbs where they think the homeless won’t follow them and start commandering things like women, drugs and whatever homeless commandeer.
Got news for ya, Occupiers, there are parasites everywhere and you can’t outrun them. Now that the idea of ~free-ish weed is well-known.
Recommended reading: The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing.
Are there such things as “organized squatters?”
>> The only land I occupy belongs to me.
Well said.
Thank God for gated communities!
Don’t any of these people have jobs, or don’t they have classes to attend?
Arrest them and give them 6 months of working on the highways, and there will be no occupy .
Check out this thread, bring in the occupiers by the bus load!
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