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Economy/Jobs

Occupy Homes Claims Abandoned House, Eyes South Minneapolis Foreclosure Free Zone

By Jacob Wheeler | December 8, 2012

Occupy Homes demonstrators launched a new campaign that they hope could solve two problems with the same remedy: moving those who lost their homes through foreclosure into abandoned properties.

Economy/Jobs

Police Detective Battles Foreclosure as Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Minnesota Team Up

By Jacob Wheeler | December 5, 2012

Retired police detective Jacqueline Barber, a cancer patient who has teamed up with Occupy Our Homes Atlanta, traveled north to Minneapolis this week to confront Minnesota-based US Bank.

Minnesota

Homeowner Wins Twice Against Freddie Mac

By Bill Sorem | November 18, 2012

St. Paul foreclosed home owner gets settlement offer from Freddie Mac with an offer to let her stay in her house.

2012

Green Party’s First Act in White House would be Foreclosure Moratorium

By Jacob Wheeler | November 3, 2012

Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala said that, were she and presidential candidate Jill Stein to win Tuesday’s election, the first thing they’d do would be to enact a moratorium on foreclosures in the United States of America.”

Economy/Jobs

Occupy Homes Holds Vigil as Foreclosed Cruz House Goes for Sale

By Jacob Wheeler | October 24, 2012

Lender Freddie Mac put the foreclosed Cruz house on the market following a heated battle over the home early this summer between Occupy Homes activists and Minneapolis police and Hennepin County sherifs officials.

Minnesota

Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Challenged In Rhyme

By Bill Sorem | October 15, 2012

Can you imagine mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gambling away homes in Las Vegas? Debbie Dernbach can, so she wrote a kids book about it, that’s really aimed at adults.

Minnesota

Citibank Dual Tracks MN Homeowner Into Foreclosure

By Allison Herrera | October 5, 2012

Citibank assured Rose McGee they were working on a plan to keep her in her house. Instead, they foreclosed on the house, without her knowing about it.

DC

Occupy’s Impact: Making Foreclosures an Election Issue

By Jacob Wheeler | September 26, 2012

In sending a delegation of embattled homeowners and activists to Washington, D.C., the Occupy Homes movement seeks to thrust the issue of home foreclosures into the national election.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy’s Impact: Forcing Mayor to Confront Lender

By Jacob Wheeler | September 21, 2012

That an undocumented immigrant family and a ragtag group of Occupy Homes activists could force the mayor of a major American city to call Freddie Mac was a testament to the power of Occupy.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy’s Impact: Homeowner Victory Plants Seed for Others Facing Foreclosure

By Jacob Wheeler | September 19, 2012

Occupy Homes found it could fight foreclosure for homeowners in the court of public opinion with the help of social media and legacy media. That inspired more homeowners to fight back against the banks and lenders.

Economy/Jobs

Organizer Nick Espinosa talks about the OccupyMN movement

Riot Charges Dropped Against Occupy Homes Activists

By Jacob Wheeler | September 19, 2012

Riot charges were dropped this morning against Minnesota Occupy Homes activists Nick Espinosa and Matthew Van Grinsven, who were arrested while defending the Cruz house in South Minneapolis from home eviction this summer.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy’s Impact: Emboldening Homeowners Against Banks

By Jacob Wheeler | September 18, 2012

Occupy Homes’ first ally was Monique White, a single mother in North Minneapolis who worked two jobs but had fallen behind on her mortgage payments and faced the threat of eviction by US Bank and her lender Freddie Mac.

Economy/Jobs

Students, Homeowners Whoring Themselves for the Banks

By Jacob Wheeler | September 18, 2012

Occupy activist Miss Nicole says she has resorted to prostitution to pay her bank debt. She made the comment during a rally to mark the one year anniversary of the Occupy movement.

Economy/Jobs

A Year Out, Occupy Emboldens the 99 Percent

By Jacob Wheeler | September 17, 2012

Occupy’s message catapulted issues of economic justice and fairness into the forefront of the political conversation, and they remain prescient today as a presidential election looms just weeks away.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy Homes Holds National Day of Action to Support Cruz Family

By Jacob Wheeler | June 20, 2012

Buoyed by a nationwide Occupy Homes movement that has rallied behind them, siblings Alejandra and David Cruz arrive in Pittsburgh to confront PNC Bank’s executives on Thursday.

Economy/Jobs

Humiliated Homeowner Turns to Son’s Occupy Homes for Help

By Jacob Wheeler | June 12, 2012

When Colleen McKee Espinosa, a nurse who lives in Northeast Minneapolis, received a sheriff’s sale notice of June 13 from Citibank last winter, she told her 26-year-old son Nick that “under no circumstances was he to bring the Occupy Homes people to my home.”

Occupy Movement

Post-Recall Demonstration Focuses On Fairness Issues

By Tracey Pollock | June 7, 2012

The day after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker survived his recall election, hundreds of activists marched in the streets of Milwaukee in non-violent civil disobedience from Pere Marquette Park to City Hall and into the banking district.

Economy/Jobs

How Much Did Police Raid on Occupy-Backed Cruz Home Cost Mineapolis?

By Jacob Wheeler | May 30, 2012

“We want to know how much this cost,” said Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and Occupy Homes activist Anthony Newby following the Minneapolis Police and Hennepin County Sheriffs raid on the Cruz house yesterday.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy Homes, Veterans Will Rally to Stop Sheriff’s Sale of Vet’s Home

By Jacob Wheeler | May 29, 2012

Occupy Homes and veterans will rally in support of John Vinje to block U.S. Bank from auctioning his Bloomington, Minnesota, house.

Minnesota

Target Of Sheriff’s Eviction Raid Calls It An Outrage

By Michael McIntee | May 25, 2012

David Cruz is in the process of renegotiating his mortgage with PNC Bank, so he was surprised when at 4AM Friday members of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office busted down his house door and tried to evict the Occupy Minnesota protesters who were defending his home.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy Activists Defend Cruz Home from Sheriff’s Eviction

By Jacob Wheeler | May 24, 2012

Approximately 100 Occupy Homes activists and community members defended Alejandra and David Cruz’s South Minneapolis home from eviction Wednesday after Hennepin County sheriffs stormed the house.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy-Backed Homeowner Monique White Wins Loan Modification, Keeps House

By Allison Herrera | May 11, 2012

Occupy backed homeowner successfully re-negotiated her loan with MN based US Bank.

Economy/Jobs

Cement Encased Occupy Home Defenders Risk Life And Limb

By Jacob Wheeler | May 5, 2012

Occupy Homes activists defending Alejandra and David Cruz’s foreclosed home in South Minneapolis have built an elaborate if not provocative home defense system to stop police from evicting the Latino family.

Economy/Jobs

Occupy Wins Home in North Minneapolis, Defends Latino Home in South

By Jacob Wheeler | May 3, 2012

Alejandra and her brother David, two Minneapolis college students and activists for the Dream Act, took the Occupy Homes pledge this week to stay in the house which their Mexican immigrant parents purchased and are in danger of losing.

Minnesota

Occupy’s Right To Occupy To Get Public Hearing

By Jacob Wheeler | April 30, 2012

On May 2, the Minneapolis City Council will hold a public hearing over the resolution proposed by Council President Barb Johnson that critics say would restrict Occupy Minneapolis’ right to gather at Peavy Plaza and other public spaces controlled by the City.