Occupy Cape Cod Targets Foreclosure Auction

Vacation destination Cape Cod may seem like a bizarre place for an Occupy protest, but that didn't stop demonstrators from rallying in the area known for beaches and lobster.

A group of protesters gathered outside a foreclosed home that was being auctioned off earlier this week to demonstrate against foreclosures that they argue were the result of the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Cape Cod Times. But despite the protest, the auctioneers still found a buyer; a bank bought the house for slightly more than $200,000.

As the Occupy movement has largely left Zuccotti park and some of the other public spaces protesters initially occupied, the group has turned to different tactics including targeting foreclosed homes. Protesters traveled to East New York, Brooklyn in December as part of the Occupy Our Homes campaign -- an aim to move homeless families into the area's dearth of foreclosed houses.

Earlier this month Occupy protesters in Nashville started an online petition to help keep Helen Bailey, a Civil Rights Era activist, from losing her home. Bailey ultimately reached a confidential agreement with her lender, JPMorgan Chase that will allow her to stay in the home until she dies, according to the activists.

Tuesday's protest indicates that Occupiers in Cape Cod are relatively aligned with other activists across the country. But others in Massachusetts' vacation destinations may be using the Occupy name in vain. Vineyard Vines, purveyor of preppy clothing known for capturing the Martha's Vineyard style, made an Occupy t-shirt earlier this month that critics argued mocked the movement.

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Comments

[Tonto Lebowski]

05:06 PM on 03/03/2012

If any of these squatters were paying taxes, they would be occupying the White House for trying to keep raising their taxes, as not to give them to the squatters!

[CitizenFitz]

07:01 AM on 02/26/2012

The Occupy movement is indeed alive and well. Our next national rally is in D.C. on March 30. Go to NOWDC.org for details. Viva Occupy!

[somearelost]

11:54 AM on 02/27/2012

no

[Lfwagh]

07:34 PM on 02/25/2012

"Tuesday's protest indicates that Occupiers in Cape Cod are relatively aligned with other activists across the country."

It's not "Occupiers in Cape Cod" is should be "Occupiers ON Cape Cod". And really? On the Cape? I'm sure the locals got a good laugh out of them.

[Salukeitis]

04:02 PM on 02/25/2012

Please anon protest the obscene yachts owned by these snobs. I mean I'm talking big,bigger, biggest. especially in the Mediteranean-that's their playground. How about a food fight with each of them. Watch out these effetes are gun carriers.

[Peter Combs]

09:01 AM on 02/25/2012

OWS is becomming a total joke...the only place OWs should be is camped is on The Washington Mall and in front of The WHite House...anyplace else is a waste of time.

Are they going to start covering Car Repos in Beverly Hills?

[Andrew Nutra]

06:27 PM on 02/24/2012

Headline should have read: OWS finds sense in beating dead horses.

[Martha Fair]

02:42 PM on 02/27/2012

We shall see, won't we...you enjoy being a passive trained lemming for the corporate monetary fascists that have taken over your government. Now show them how you are willing to Roll over, fetch and play dead for them.

[4everright]

03:37 PM on 02/24/2012

I'll give the OWS slackers Warren Buffet's address if they want to camp out in someones yard for awhile, I'm sure warren won't mind.

[George Picard]

12:13 PM on 02/25/2012

Heck since they are on the Cape why not just stop by One of Sen Kerrys homes in mass. he is a sold 1%er, well at least his wife is.

[dblohangel]

03:20 PM on 02/24/2012

With reference to the Helen Bailey matter...the agreement reached is all that was necessary from the start. "JPMorgan Chase that will allow her to stay in the home until she dies, according to the activists" The bank will likely retain the property upon Ms Bailey's death...and in reality that is all JPMorga Chase wanted all along...no regard for the disruption they cause in Ms Bailey's life, or community...no regard for the disruption they, along with the other banksters cause throughout the nation with their callousness, their greedy actions.

[nhr 215]

03:18 PM on 02/24/2012

There is still an occupy movement?

[sherlockhemlock]

04:58 AM on 02/25/2012

Big. Fat. Fail.

[Martha Fair]

02:35 PM on 02/27/2012

keep telling yourself that..you shall see trained lemming.

[Salukeitis]

04:03 PM on 02/25/2012

You're a Sh**head