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 Occupy Our Homes Makes a MovePosted on Dec 10, 2011
The Occupy Our Homes campaign kicked off last Tuesday when hundreds of people, including activists, neighborhood residents and a couple of City Council members, marched through a neglected Brooklyn neighborhood to open a foreclosed house to a homeless family. Alfredo Carrasquillo, the father of that family, spoke about the event and the future of OOH with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. Carrasquillo, his children and their mother risk arrest by moving into the East New York home, which is owned by Bank of America. —ARK UP w/Chris Hayes: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Advertisement TAGS:
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By IMax, December 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment
Outraged,
In your rage you’ve lost focus. You’re losing the battle for support from the “99” - American people.
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“Occupy Wall Street Favor Fading”
“The Occupy Wall Street movement is not wearing well with voters across the country. Only 33% now say that they are supportive of its goals, compared to 45% who say they oppose them. That represents an 11 point shift in the wrong direction for the movement’s support compared to a month ago when 35% of voters said they supported it and 36% were opposed. Most notably independents have gone from supporting Occupy Wall Street’s goals 39/34, to opposing them 34/42.”
“What the downturn in Occupy Wall Street’s image suggests is that voters are seeing the movement as more about the ‘Occupy’ than the ‘Wall Street.’ The controversy over the protests is starting to drown out the actual message.”
“The poll asked: “Do you support or oppose the goals of the
Occupy Wall Street movement?” The result was only 33% support, to 45% opposed.” - Public Policy Polling
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Meanwhile, according to USA Today/Gallup, there has been an increase from 20 percent to 31 percent disapproval of how the protests are being conducted. And even more, 59 percent, told pollsters they don’t know enough about the Occupy movement to form an opinion on it, despite the extensive media coverage it has received.- Politico
Report thisMore people now support the Tea Party over Occupy
By Outraged, December 12, 2011 at 9:21 am Link to this comment
It is easy for the banks to outright give the homes
away, even if only one payment has been made. At that
point they are in the black, as Alan Grayson shows:
“Dear xxxx,
You saw that title, “A $200K Mortgage for $2 a
Month,” and maybe you thought, “that looks like
spam.”
No. It’s real.
And then maybe you thought, “a $200,000 mortgage? For
only $2 each month? That sounds impossible.”
Well, it is possible. It’s just not possible for you.
For Bank of America, yes. For Citigroup, yes. For
Wells Fargo, yes.
For you, no.
The GAO’s main report on its audit of the Federal
Reserve exposed who received the trillions and
trillions of dollars in Fed bailouts. But the GAO
report wasn’t very specific about the terms of those
bailouts. For that, we have the Freedom of
Information Act records obtained by Bloomberg News,
which Bloomberg wrote about last week. Among other
things, Bloomberg reported that the Fed lent out this
cash to Wall Street at rates “as low as 0.01
percent.”
To such worthy recipients as Bear Stearns, AIG, the
Royal Bank of Scotland, etc., etc.
Well, it could have been worse. The Fed could have
just dumped the money into a wood chipper.
If you do that math, you’ll see that when the Fed
gave Citigroup the money for a $200,000 mortgage, at
0.01 percent, Citigroup had to pay less than $2 each
month for that money. Citigroup then lent that money
to you – if it deigned to lend you anything – for
maybe $1,000 a month, maybe more.
And that $40,000 credit card balance? Citigroup paid
the Fed less than a dollar a month for that money.
And you paid $1,000.
Citigroup pays $1. You pay $1,000. You see how that
works?
Citigroup fell into such a deep hole that it had to
borrow a “term-adjusted” $58,000,000,000 from the
Fed, according to Page 132 of the GAO’s audit report.
And what would you get from the Fed, if you fell into
a deep hole? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Diddly-squat.
Zero.
You wouldn’t get jack.
If you lose your home, you can sleep in your car. If
you lose your car, you can sleep under a bridge.
Unless, of course, you’re a Wall Street banker.
Two hundred and thirteen years ago, there was a
Member of Congress who said: “Millions for defense,
but not one penny for tribute.” Now we have a
government that says: “Trillions for Wall Street, but
not one penny for you.”
That’s our government. Unless we change it.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes. Everybody knows.”
- Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”
People who believe that the banks are saving anyone
Report thisfrom a “moral hazard” are ignorant.
By IMax, December 12, 2011 at 7:48 am Link to this comment
Outraged, - “What they are doing is wonderful.”
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Keep this up and 99% of Americans will feel compelled to spank your petulant, whining, ass and send you back to your tent to sulk.
Stand up and strengthen democracy. Occupy the U.S. Congress.
Report thisBy akaKen, December 12, 2011 at 7:19 am Link to this comment
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Stereotyping and misinformed and misleading generalizations that are generated and stimulated by our Government, Courts, Major Media and Corporate Industries, have kept us preoccupied (no pun) and fighting amongst ourselves while they “Rape and Pillage”.
We must break down the walls that divide us.
Report this“ #Occupy Protest Song “
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OE-z7hIuQ
By Outraged, December 11, 2011 at 8:36 pm Link to this comment
Sorry that link didn’t hypertext, here it is:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/11/children-of-ows-post-paper-hearts-cops-rip-them-down/
Report thisBy Outraged, December 11, 2011 at 8:34 pm Link to this comment
What they are doing is wonderful. We have all these
homes sitting unused and we have all these people in
need of housing, it makes logical sense if nothing
else.
Through the months I’ve read story after story of
people being evicted from their homes, the banks
unwilling to revamp mortgages…etc. They then evict
the owners, lock the doors and auction it off at half
its worth. All the while refusing to do this for the
original owners who wanted to keep their home and
neighborhoods intact. It’s stupid.
NYC cops bully children too.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/11/children-of-
Report thisows-post-paper-hearts-cops-rip-them-down/
By ardee, December 11, 2011 at 8:29 am Link to this comment
All power to the people!
Report thisBy race_to_the_bottom, December 10, 2011 at 6:48 pm Link to this comment
This is great and we should tell everyone we can reach the following: If you are in foreclosure, DON’T let them kick you out of your home. There are fresh political winds blowing at the grassroots.
I cannot understand why MSNBC has been relatively friendly to the whold Occupy movement. Can anyone enlighten me?
Report thisBy gerard, December 10, 2011 at 6:47 pm Link to this comment
In the course of trying to get my previous comment out, I kept getting it kicked back to me, so again I’ll say what I said before—Right on!
Furthermore, in returning again and again to the site to work out the problem, I noticed references to another article “The Cruelty of Nonlethal Weapons” and it occurs to me to add: Foreclosure probably qualifies as the absolute cruelest nonlethal weapon of all!
Listen to the voice of the child in the background on this video and hear the voice of happiness itself! Merry Christmas.
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