Photos: Hundreds Occupy East New York For OWS Foreclosure Tour

[Huey P. Long]

MANY MORE AT LINK-
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It's a lovely day for a foreclosure tour, and Occupy Wall Street has taken to East New York to highlight the affects of the continuing housing crisis that continues to cripple the entire country. Our own James Thilman is on the scene, and notes that the crowd has swelled to nearly 400, with neighbors joining the march as it makes its way from one foreclosed home to the next. "We are here in East New York where the rate of foreclosure is 3 times higher than the entirety of Brooklyn and 5 times higher than the state," Minister Patricia Malcolm told the crowd. "Today we are real estate agents…We are going to look for those homes that are unoccupied we are going to rent them out today."

Kendal Jackman, of Picture the Homeless, one of the many groups supporting today's event, described how she came to lose her home:

My landlady took out two subprime mortgages, totaling $775,000. That's more than 2.5 times the value of the home. In February of 2009 my neighbor and I were served with foreclosure papers. For two years my landlady did not pay the mortgage and our home was an ATM for her. On September 21, 2009 I entered the Department of Homeless Services. I am still in the system.
Thilman tells us that there were "almost no police officers" when the march initially began around 1 p.m., but now squad cars are lining the route. City Council members Ydanis Rodriguez and Charles Barron are in attendance, and the group is nearing what appears to be the final home on the tour, where protesters will host a block party for a family that will defy eviction and continue to live in their home.

The march has reached its destination, 702 Vermont Street, where a family will reside in a home that has been unoccupied for three years. Alfredo Carrasquillo, Tasha Glasgow, and her two children will be under the watch of Occupy Wall Street's "eviction defense team." "I want to thank the NYPD for all their support. I hope they don't wake me up in my bed at 2 a.m." Carrasquillo half-jokingly told the crowd. Thilman notes that he choked up a bit when speaking to the group.

According to a release, Glasgow and her children, an eight year-old girl with autism and a five year-old boy, previously received a housing voucher through the NYC "Advantage" program in the spring, but it was withdrawn after Mayor Bloomberg enacted budget cuts. Once a few housewarming gifts were passed to the family, Carrasquillo and other volunteers began working to fix up the property.

Thilman reports that the march may make an unscheduled detour to a house that has an eviction notice set for 5 p.m. today.



http://gothamist.com/2011/12/06/photos_hundreds_occupy_east_new_yor.php#photo-1

[Huey P. Long]

1. VIDEO: Debbie Henry tells her story

OccupyOurHomes OccupyOurHomes.org
VIDEO: Debbie Henry tells her story & why she's refusing to leave her home http://youtu.be/1CQhW4bzokY #OccupyHomes
37 minutes ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CQhW4bzokY&feature=youtu.be

[Huey P. Long]

2. more-

Terri_Waller Terri Waller
VIDEO: Bobby Hull's touching story: Facing Foreclosure. #OccupyMN will begin defending his home Tuesday. #OccupyHomes http://vimeo.com/33120821
10 minutes ago

macfathom Nick Pinto
Crowd erupts into cheers as family waves from the doorway of their new de-foreclosed home. #D6 #OccupyHomes
1 hour ago »

OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall Street
#OWS arrives at 702 Vermont and occupies. "Bank of America house, now a Brooklyn home." #D6 #Occupyhomes
1 hour ago »

LOLGOP Pete Nicely
When #ows is occupying foreclosed homes, it makes it really silly to ask, "What is this all about?" #OccupyHomes
1 hour ago »

inthesetimesmag In These Times
RT @VOCALNewYork: Tasha Glasgow's new house! Reclaimed from Bank of America in East NY, Bklyn #occupyhomes #d6 http://twitpic.com/7pf90l
1 hour ago »

econjustice Economic Justice
Please RT! Want to get updates about campaigns to stop #foreclosure? Follow @EconJustice & sign petitions: http://chn.ge/s0pQdV #OccupyHomes
1 hour ago »

TheOther99 TheOther99
#OccupyHomes march now at housewarming party with balloons. Watch @Timcast reporting now: http://TheOther99.tv #OWS
1 hour ago »

allisonkilkenny allisonkilkenny
Already using backup battery so going to tweet more sparsely to make it last. March moving up hegeman ave to final local now #occupyhomes
1 hour ago »

blogdiva Liza Sabater
Some of +10 cops invaded a neighbor's w/o a warrant #OccupyHomes #OWS http://twitpic.com/7pezmv
1 hour ago »

blogdiva Liza Sabater
I find it curious we have NYPD following us in 3 unmarked cars #OccupyHomes #OWS http://twitpic.com/7pesiv
2 hours ago »

OccupyOurHomes OccupyOurHomes.org
RT @robgarciasj: "foreclose on banks, not people" banner at front of #occupyhomes real estate tour #d6 http://twitpic.com/7pdu5f
2 hours ago »

TheOther99 TheOther99
LIVE VIDEO: #OccupyHomes protesters loudly chant: "We ARE Grassroots!" & "No Justice! No Peace! #OWS @Timcast at http://TheOther99.tv

2 hours ago » TheOther99 TheOther99
LIVE VIDEO: #OccupyHomes action by #OWS protesters happening now.. @Timcast reporting at http://TheOther99.tv
2 hours ago

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[Huey P. Long]

9. Occupy homes -Oakland (pic)

Occupy homes -Oakland (pic)

mrdaveyd Davey D
One of the houses in West Oakland that folks have #occupied to stop a family from being foreclosed on #ows lockerz.com/s/162664307
51 minutes ago

http://c0014074.r32.cf1.rackcdn.com/x2_9b20f73

[Huey P. Long]

10. The happy family totally swarmed by press right now, as #OWS Sanitation Working Group moves in to ti

@DiceyTroop
Dicey Troop
The happy family totally swarmed by press right now, as #OWS Sanitation Working Group moves in to tidy up! #D6 pic.twitter.com/MIrBoKC8

[Zorra]

12. knr

[Huey P. Long]

3. For a national map of foreclosed homes being reclaimed by #OWS

Occupy Movement Targets Foreclosed Properties
And I accompany a squat team hoping to "liberate" vacant NYC housing units.
—By Josh Harkinson
| Tue Dec. 6, 2011

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/occupy-our-homes-wall-street-squatters-foreclosures

[joshcryer]

6. Hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about!

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4. Kick!

[Huey P. Long]

5. thanks for the kick. -eom

[smokey nj]

7. My pleasure!

[Huey P. Long]

8. VIDEO CLIPS-

Recorded live on December 6, 2011 3:12 PM CST
foreclosure finale
wearetheother99

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18974221#utm_campaign=synclickback&source=http://www.thenation.com/blog/164979/occupyusa-blog-tuesday-dec-6-frequent-updates&medium=18974221

[Huey P. Long]

11. 'Occupy Our Homes' Protesters Highlight Foreclosures Nationwide (VIDEO)

'Occupy Our Homes' Protesters Highlight Foreclosures Nationwide (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/occupy-our-homes-foreclosures_n_1130375.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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After the Encampments
#OCCUPYMIGRATION and #OCCUPYHOMES
Micah White , 06 Dec 2011
The history of activism is a cat-and-mouse game of surprising tactical innovations that spark an insurrectionary situation and the counterstrategies developed to put down the revolt. In 1848, the invention of the barricade toppled the King of France and sparked a Europe-wide people's uprising. In 1999, the unique mixture of a carnivalesque mood with human lockboxes disrupted the World Trade Organization's Seattle meeting and launched the alterglobalization movement. In 2003, the speed of the Internet empowered the world's first worldwide, synchronized antiwar protest. In each of these cases, the power structures were taken by surprise, were slow to respond but eventually, through trial-and-error, discovered a successful counterstrategy. If there is one law of activism it is that every tactic which works initially will eventually be defeated if too often repeated.

From the perspective of the status quo putting down a revolution is a matter of buttressing oneself against unforeseen assaults and waiting out the initial storm while continually experimenting with responses. Once an effective response is hit upon it is replicated across society and used to suppress the revolt everywhere. In 1848, for example, the barricade was practically invulnerable because the military was unprepared for street fighting (they approached the barricades head-on, at its strongest point) and were constrained by the ethical code that cannons cannot be used against one's own people. Once this spell was broken, once the government grew desperate enough to use cannons to destroy citizen houses so that barricades could be attacked from their flank, the revolution of 1848 fizzled out. And yet, even after a tactic is neutralized it lingers on within the insurgent imagination. It wasn't until the 1871 Paris Commune that the barricade was finally shown to be utterly useless, perhaps even a detriment. Our task as revolutionary activists is thus quite difficult: we must continually innovate; we must perceive immediately when one tactic begins to fail; we must be ready to deploy another stratagem.
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We can accelerate the #OCCUPYHOMES meme by making a concerted push on December 6 and beyond to set up squats in bank-owned, foreclosed homes. In addition, we can facilitate the #OCCUPYMIGRATION of occupiers from hostile to friendly cities. There are, for example, over ninety tents at #OCCUPYBERKELEY even though #OCCUPYOAKLAND's encampment a few miles away has been shut down.

While the corporate-State chases symbolic tents, we can start consolidating and fortifying our outdoor encampments in friendly territory until we are strong enough to resist foreclosure. Meanwhile in cities everywhere, let's quietly set up local indoor Occupy Homes in every neighborhood. Both of these spaces just might become the bases for our Spring Offensive.


http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/blackspot-blog/after-encampments.html

[deutsey]

13. K&R

[deutsey]

14. Thank you, OWS

:thumbsup:

[Huey P. Long]

15. thanks for the kicks. -eom

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. K&R!

[Huey P. Long]

17. thank you.