Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure

[kpete]

Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure
By Zaid Jilani on Nov 8, 2011 at 11:30 am



Occupy Atlanta has repeatedly run into hurdles, as it has been evicted from Woodruff Park in Atlanta multiple times by the city’s unsympathetic mayor, Kasim Reed. Yet the group was invigorated yesterday as it moved to a new location to take action for economic justice.

Last week, Tawanna Rorey’s husband, a police officer based in Gwinnett County, e-mailed Occupy Atlanta to explain that his home was going to be foreclosed on and his family was in danger of being evicted on Monday. So within a few hours Occupy Atlanta developed an action plan to move to Snellville, Georgia on Monday to stop the foreclosure. At least two dozen protesters encamped on the family’s lawn, to the applause of neighbors and bystanders:

Nearly two dozen protesters assembled Monday afternoon at Tawanna Rorey’s four-bedroom home in a neighborhood just south of Snellville, clogging the narrow, winding street that runs in front of the house with cars, vans and TV trucks. Many neighbors stopped to gawk at the spectacle and even honked their car horns in support of the crowd. <...> set up two tents in the front yard, draped a “This Home is Occupied” sign over the porch railing and handed out bottled water and granola bars to other members.

A local CBS station filed a report about the new occupation. Watch it:
VIDEO:
http://www.ajc.com/news/occupy-atlanta-comes-to-1219759.html
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/08/363692/occupy-atlanta-encamps-in-neighborhood-to-save-police-officers-home-from-foreclosure/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Next phase

:-)

[freshwest]

2. I hope he keeps his job and home. But I see the PODS storage unit, too. So it could...

Go either way, that's practical on everyone's part.

The Occupy folks are the flexible and creative ones, the power of life, because they are following the heart and justice. Love can send us down many unexpected paths, and this about love.

It's common sense that people need the right to live and the means to do so.

Those who are enforcing 'order' are doing just that, forcing order against the true rule of law, doing what's just and fair for everyone.

:thumbsup:

:kick:

This made my morning brighter, thanks.

:grouphug:

[intheflow]

3. Reposted this on fb

for my one family member who live in Georgia and trolls all my OWS posts. Thansk for the story ad link!

:kick:

[meow2u3]

4. I sure hope that officer doesn't bite the hands that feed him

by arresting the protesters who are trying to save his home from the banksters.

[Fumesucker]

5. Mark Twain had something to say about that..

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

[ThomWV]

6. Looking at the picture I have to wonder, where are his/her fellow Officers?

I thought the blue stuck like glue, where are the evictee's fellow Police Officers, where is their solidarity?

[Amonester]

7. It seems most of them still R with the 1%, until...

the day the 1% will 'hit' them in their wallets...

Sad that they always wait until it's too late.

[RebelOne]

8. According to the local Atlanta news WSBTV, they are moving on.

They rallied the neighbors to keep watch. It is now called Occupy Gwinnett. No link yet, as news just reported it at noon.

[lindysalsagal]

9. Brilliant. This kind of thing really works with the police, even if the forclosure

goes through. Brilliant!