‘Occupy Our Homes' Attempts To Stop Another Detroit Foreclosure

ThinkProgress:

This week, Occupy Our Homes, an outgrowth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, successfully helped a 78 year-old former civil rights activist in Atlanta stay in her home, after she was threatened with foreclosure by JP Morgan Chase (while the bank was simultaneously touting its commitment to the values of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.). Meanwhile, in Detroit, Occupy Our Homes has successfully prevented four foreclosures and is locked in on a fifth, as Michigan Radio reports:

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Comments

[lrfu]

08:39 PM on 02/17/2012

The bankers need to be charged!!!! Sign the petition and pass it on!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charge-the-US-Bankers/102183336560078

[omnioasis]

05:05 PM on 02/17/2012

it is nice to see OWS is getting people to start paying their loans back. no one really want to see a person or family lose their home.on the other hand we do expect them to pay and not keep it for free. Finding a solution to get people back to paying off their debt is brilliant.

[campcranston]

02:09 PM on 02/17/2012

It's good to see that this movement is moving into the communities and actually walking the walk in terms of helping out where it is needed, not just camping and protesting.

[Peter007]

01:35 PM on 02/17/2012

OWS philosophy can be summed up easily.

One set of rules and laws for us and another set of rules and laws for everyone else.

Who is a member of "us" you ask ?

Anyone that is protesting in the street and pledges allegiance to the Obama socialistic plan.

[campcranston]

02:08 PM on 02/17/2012

Hahah, I don't think these folks are trying to reclaim foreclosed homes simply by protesting in the streets.

[frank day]

12:37 PM on 02/17/2012

Catherine Austin Fitts, the former Asst. Sec. of Housing under Bush, says that most of these

loans were fraudulent.

Don't willingly abandon your homes.

That's what the Banksters are hoping you'll do.

[daultman463]

01:01 PM on 02/17/2012

What if you simply couldn`t affford the home you bought?? Are people responsible for anything they do. If you can show me where the banks committed fraud than i will support you on those loans. But if it wasn`t fraud and just that they couldn`t afford it will you agree they should lose the home?? Or is this as i suspect,always the banks fault.

[frank day]

01:21 PM on 02/17/2012

Google "TapeWorm Economy"

[leorangerie]

11:36 AM on 02/17/2012

Barney Frank and the house banking committee FORCED banks to give a large percentage of loans of unqualified buyers. And now we are paying the price. Yet it is shocking how little responsibility Mr. Frank and his colleagues have owned up to for this mess.

[fozzi58]

11:49 AM on 02/17/2012

Stop. It was not Barney Frank. Clinton is the idiot that tried to "reach across the isle" and repealed Glass-Stegall. This is where all these fake computations know as derivatives came from.

That's what you get when you try to do right by the rich party.

And if you want to talk about real responsibility, lets go to the CEO's of banks etc that took those toxic mortgages and decided to bundle them up and pay off S&P & Moody's to get a AAA rating...then sell them to unsuspecting investors...Like Germany, Greece, etc. The banks could have said "No, this is too risky" but they chose not too.

[frankieshoes1]

12:03 PM on 02/17/2012

6%

[Italianamerican]

10:45 AM on 02/17/2012

If you are not paying for it, It is not yours. I say arrest them all.

[campcranston]

02:08 PM on 02/17/2012

Arrest them for helping fellow citizens?

[boxjelly]

10:00 AM on 02/17/2012

Occupo_opers: Defending those who do not pay their bills since 2011

[campcranston]

02:09 PM on 02/17/2012

You're going to just make assumptions about peoples' situations?