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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
St. Paul foreclosed home owner gets settlement offer from Freddie Mac with an offer to let her stay in her house.
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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.” Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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.” Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
“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. Continue Reading →
Occupy Homes and veterans will rally in support of John Vinje to block U.S. Bank from auctioning his Bloomington, Minnesota, house. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
Occupy backed homeowner successfully re-negotiated her loan with MN based US Bank. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
