OccupyMN May Occupy Foreclosed Homes When Snow Flies
OccupyMN may be moving in next door to you.
Nick Espinosa, one of the OccupyMN organizers, says the group is considering going to occupy foreclosed homes when inevitable snows begin to fall in Minneapolis. The group has been blessed with relatively mild October weather while it has camped out in The People’s Plaza, also known as Hennepin County Government Center plaza.
Beyond preventing hypothermia, the move would also draw attention to one of the primary reasons the group of 100 or so people have been in the plaza for two weeks –the need to put a moratorium on home foreclosures. Some 29,000 homes in Minnesota are now in foreclosure process.
A foreclosure moratorium is one of the specific demands the group has made so far. Nationally the movement has changed the conversation about rich and poor and forced the media to write more about the disparity between the richest 1% of Americans and all others.
A few days ago, seven protestors were arrested for blocking an intersection in downtown Minneapolis. Espinosa sees this as but one tool to help accomplish goals. He said that rallies, protests and marches haven’t produced results so they will try a number of approaches.
Espinosa has participated in a number of high profile protests including a bag of pennies for gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and glitter for Newt Gingrich and the Marcus Bachmann clinic.
The general assembly for operation is puzzling to many. It’s a consensus approach rather than a typical Robert’s Rules of Order approach. About 100 people have been sleeping over in the park south of the building and about the same number have been participating in the daily general assembly
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Or the folxs who …
Or the folxs who were tossed out of there houses should Re-Occupy… I know plenty of folx who stuck with their houses even if they did lose value. There was a romantic resurgence in the whole housing market at the time..Family’s I know who lost their shirts where in the building trades, and thought they should be buying a home themselves. They were making good money when the bottom fell out. People were being fed the whole; your throwing your money away paying rent argument.
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@OccupationGeneration Why is it the banks fault if people were too greedy and borrowed more than they should have? I would agree that the banks shoul have been more careful, but the blame rests solely on the greedy consumer who felt the world owed him a house, etc etc.
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@Odelpex I have an idea, lets use “multinational corporations” and “big banks” enough times and people will start to think they are evil words! Consumer greed is the only issue I see here, don’t blame business people for being ambitious!
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Wow, so it’s that banks fault that people were too greedy and went too far in debt? And the same tired old question, how did these people get time off work?
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@Odelpex I don’t want to throw poor sick people out on their so I’m not totally shooting down the idea of a socialized health care system, I just want the continued existance of a capitalist, competitive system in terms of health care. There are many medical advances that arrived through a competiton based system, such as viagra and various plastic surgery techniques that would not have been researched under a completely socialized system.
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@WTFukinshit Each and every state is built upon the threat of force.. Giving the people some of their money back through socialized health care systems, the same money that multinational corporations and big banks stole from them, won’t change that fact.
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This is awesome.
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Don’t you dare give this state a bad name
I’m serious, don’t break anything, don’t disobay the law and respect the police. and don’t make a mess, seriously this state should be better then this… now go home, find a job, ANY job even if it’s flipping patties or scrubbing toilets and do it like a Boss…
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@OccupationGeneration Hmm, do you think anyone voted against it? No threat of force? Go become a Canadian or UK citizen and refuse to pay taxes for the healthcare system on the money you have earned. See how quickly police will show up, shackle you, take you before a judge who will put you in a cell. This is force and threat of force. Coincidentally, I agree that both of these are better systems than the fascist US system, but I’ll never agree to give our government more power or money.
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@WTFukinshit Okay I’ll name the exception. Great Britain, Canada, and many other nations have adopted socialised health care as well as other socialist policies without threat of force or murder, they voted it in. Where do you get your facts from? I’m not even going to diginify the rest of your idiocy with a response.
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@OccupationGeneration I don’t have disdain for those who work harder than me. I just understand how to work smarter and put my money in the right places. I don’t think I should pay more taxes. I don’t fault bank CEOs for using the law to benefit themselves, I blame the politicians and judges who sell out to the CEOs. Socialism is always accomplished through murder, or threat of force. Name the exception. I din’t say I think they should go to prison, I said this is the excuse they’ll use.
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@WTFukinshit Lots of people work harder than you ever have, and can’t afford 1 mortgage. Your disdain for them and for the “dumbasses” you think should go to prison makes you an asshole. . What I find interesting is at no time do you fault the banks for giving bonuses to CEO’s out of the taxpayer supported bailout, yet you have a problem with socialism? The CEO’s of your bank paid for their limo with your money. Do you have a limo?
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do not believe obama, goverment regulations on the economy or people private life would never work in long term. he is damaging our country even more!!!!!
LETS START THE REAL CHANGE, THE REAL REVOLUTION. WE GAINED OUR FREEDOM IN 1776. NOW THE GOVERMENT HAS TAKEN IT AWAY. LETS HAVE IT BACK IN 2012 BEFORE IS TO LATE.
RON PAUL 2012!!!!!!
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@OccupationGeneration I pay a mortgage on the house I live in, and the one I rent. Of course I tremble when people talk about forclosure moratorium because with that comes a freeze on payment of mortgages and rents. I’ve worked hard for what I have and I’m not about to let you take it. I bought both of these properties as shitholes and spent my money fixing them. I don’t want the government to own them. I don’t think that makes me an asshole.
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There have always been people who try to get loans which are beyond their credit rating, and in the past banks used a screening process to determine who is denied credit. The defense of the free market is that businesses can regulate themselves. Then the banks gave mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them, proving that companies CAN’T properly regulate themselves. Hence, our banking system should be totally nationalized.
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@WTFukinshit I find it depressing that an like you is in the business of health care. By the way, just calling anyone a socialist ISN’T enough anymore, because only mccarthyistic ignoramuses still their pants and tremble at the slightest criticism of capitalism. Why do you have 2 mortgages? Are they on the same house? That doesn’t sound like capitalism working very well at all. Everyone I’ve ever known with a second mortgage said it sucked.
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Forclosure moratorium=government controlled housing=socialism Its better if I spell it out, as simply calling him a socialist isnt enough for some of you. I still make payments on both of my mortgages. I studied hard and got a medical position that isn’t easily disposed of in any economy. Capitalism works for me, why should I house you? Social work majors are the dumbest people in the land of college, IMO. This will be the excuse they will use to put you dumbasses in prison.
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You dumbasses saying oh you shouldn’t buy a house you can’t afford. Most people COULD afford them. Then the economy went to complete or medical bills wiped them out. It’s the same old song and dance. And we have every right to be and peacefully protest about our system only representing the 1%.
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@philosophergenius If that is how you sum it up you really don’t understand the problem. Go back to watching Fox.
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You can’t afford a house you shouldn’t have one
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What a moron, if someone can’t pay for something, they should NOT get to keep it. Failures, Obama supporting feckless, bought and paid -for failures.
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I think it is a wonderful idea, and they should give the house back to the city if rehabbed.
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people should buy what they can afford and there wouldnt be any foreclosed homes to occupy, and heres an idea, dont get credit cards!
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Obama indeed seems to be offering a people’s government solution to all human problems. He is, after all, running for President of the United States, not for a pulpit. Substituting the state for God as provider has been the inherent common thread in all Marxist regimes.
Obama’s Politics of Collective Redemption
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
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G’day…
Yes, I concurr. Pitching tents to have them sent to Landfill is ridiculous.
Squat in the Forclosed houses. That’ll play well.
Another tip, surveil the Cop Shop, follow the Po-Lice home when they go Off-Shift…; then set up new Protests, where the Bully Pigs like to feel safe. In their Front yards. No respite. No concentrated Targets. Divide & Conquer… Let their neighbours see their brutility. Don’t let them set you up. Good luck !
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