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Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protestors

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Cruzy Family Raid, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Eviction Protests, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family Minnesota, Ows, Foreclosure, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Minneapolis, Foreclosure Protests, Business News

On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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Woman May Get To Stay In Home -- Thanks To Occupy

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Principal Reduction, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Freddie Mac, Monique White, Nick Espinosa, Anthony Newby, Occupy Our Homes, US Bank, Occupy Homes Mn, Business News

NEW YORK -- For more than a year after January 2011 when the bank foreclosed on Monique White's North Minneapolis home, she has been fighting to stay....

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WATCH: Shirtless Women Interrupt BofA CEO Speech

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Brian Moynihan, Video, Bank of America Ceo, Brian Moynihan Interrupted, Occupy Wall Street, Business News, Bank of America, Codepink, Occupy Our Homes, International Women's Day, Brian-Moynihan-Bofa, Big Banks, Business News

Shirtless women are likely not the types of guests most would expect to see at a conference full of Wall Street suits. But they were in attendance...

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Keeping a Roof Over Our Heads

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 05.07.2012

Congress must not let the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act expire at the end of the year. Today 12 million Americans are on the verge of losing their homes because they owe more money than their home is worth.

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Occupy Group Declares Victory In Foreclosure Fight

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Video, Freddie Mac, District of Columbia, Occupy Wall Street, Bertina Jones, Occupy Our Homes, Occupy Dc, Maryland, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Occupy Our Homes-DC, a housing-focused group related to Occupy DC, scored a victory in its goal of saving a Bowie, Md., grandmother's ho...

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Occupy Protesters Help Former Marine Save Foreclosed Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Occupy Minnesota, Hamp, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Making Home Affordable, Monique White, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, Occupy Wall Street, Bobby-Hull, Eviction, Bank of America, Redemption Period, Foreclosure, Occupy Our Homes, Business News

Bobby Hull was supposed be thrown out of his house this month. Instead, thanks partly to Occupy Wall Street activists, he may get to stay. Last wee...

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Occupy Movement's Latest Frontier? Vacation Destination

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Occupy Cape Cod, Business News, Video, Cape Cod, Occupy Our Homes, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

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 ...

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Family Who Re-Occupied Foreclosed Home Resists Eviction

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Occupy Foreclosure, Riverside, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Freddie Mac, Occupyla, Arturo De Los Santos, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Foreclosure, Latino Voices News

LOS ANGELES -- Arturo De Los Santos and his wife Magdalena have been fighting to keep the home in Riverside, California, where they raised their four ...

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Occupy LA & Wells Fargo Sit Down To Talk Foreclosures

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Occupy Foreclosure, Occupy LA Wells Fargo, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Occupy Banks, Wells Fargo, Occupy La, Occupy Our Homes, Wells Fargo Foreclosure, Home Foreclosures, Los Angeles News

Occupy LA has gone from drum circles and tent cities to meetings with high-powered bank executives. Seven activists met with six Wells Fargo execu...

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How "Occupy Our Homes" Can Win

Amy B. Dean | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Foreclosure, Occupy Our Homes, City Life/Vida Urbana, Anti-Eviction, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Since so many people in America are dealing with insecurity about their homes, the shift to doing foreclosure prevention and anti-eviction actions allows new groups of people with a clear sense of their own connection to the struggle to engage with the Occupy movement.

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Occupy Atlanta Wins Deal With BB&T, Saves Historic Church

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Dexter Johnson, BB&T, Occupy Wall Street, Evictions, Atlanta, Occupy Our Homes, Higher-Ground-Empowerment-Center, Foreclosure, Occupy Atlanta, Big Banks, Vine City, Tim-Franzen, Hgec, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Occupy Atlanta can declare another victory in its fight against big banks. Six days ago, Pastor Dexter Johnson called on the organizers ...

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Bank Learns Not To Mess With Occupy Atlanta

Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Occupy Our Homes, Occupy Foreclosed Church, Higher Ground Empowerment Center, Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Atlanta Church, Higher Ground Atlanta, Higher Ground Foreclosure, Religion News

A 108-year-old church threatened with foreclosure got a last-minute reprieve thanks to the efforts of Occupy Atlanta, whose members staged a protest a...

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Ask Not What Occupy Wall Street Will Do Next; Ask How We Will Change The Status Quo

Jason Fitzgerald | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Ows, Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Elections, offthebus2012, Offthebus, Occupy Our Homes, Wall Street, Bank of America, Michael Moore, Zuccotti Park, Occupy the Ports, Politics News

Occupying Wall Street was not a crazy scheme that a group of activists did for attention. They did it for us. If Wall Street is king, then Wall Street is ours, and the activists were holding our spot.

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What a Southgate Family's Rally Says About the Foreclosure Crisis

Jonathan Timm | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Bank of America, Occupy Our Homes Michigan, Fannie Mae, Occupy Our Homes, Michigan Housing Market, Michigan Foreclosures, Henry Family Foreclosure, Detroit News

Not every family will be able bring rallies to their front lawns, but hopefully, the increasing momentum of the Henrys' fight is a sign of many more to come.

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2011: The Year the Power Went Off in Washington

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Media, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Occupy Our Homes, Congress Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Income Inequality, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Again and again in 2011, as the country sat mired in crises and the long-term effects of joblessness, declining wages, and downward mobility, the response by the governing class could not have been more disproportionate to the problems.

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Occupy Atlanta Helps Save Iraq War Veteran's Home From Foreclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Iraq War, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Rorey, Riverdale, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Riverdale, Occupy Our Homes, Foreclosure, Georgia, Tim Franzen, Occupy Atlanta, Brigitte Walker, Vacant Property, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a tangible victory by the Occupy movement, Occupy Atlanta has successfully helped save an Iraq War veteran from foreclosure. Acti...

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Occupy Our Homes Wins Hearts Along A Brooklyn Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Video, Homelessness, Wall Street, Brooklyn, Occupy Wall Street, Eviction, Business News, Occupy Our Homes, Foreclosure, Occupy Movement, Business News

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Until three days ago, Teresa Bolton didn't consider herself part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Bolton is 55 and lives in East...

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Occupy the Rose Parade Relays Its Plan

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: The Rose Parade, Holidays, Video, Pasadena Tournament of Roses, Occupy Pasadena, New-Years-2012, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy La, Occupy Our Homes, Pasadena Rose Parade, Rose Bowl, Occupy the Rose Parade, Tournament of Roses, Los Angeles News

Pasadena is known around the world for its New Year's Day Rose Parade. About 51.9 million Americans watched the 2010 Rose Parade on television. It was...

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A California Charlie Brown Christmas

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Southern California Foreclosure, Charlie Brown Christmas Foreclosure, Holidays, Jim Jordan, Occupy Our Homes, Snoopy House Orange County, Snoopy Christmas Foreclosure, Occupy Foreclosure, Video, Occupy Wall Street, Christmas, Costa Mesa Snoopy House, Wells Fargo Foreclosure, Save the Snoopy House, Jim-Jordan-Snoopy-House, Los Angeles News

When Jim Jordan found out that his house in Costa Mesa was being foreclosed upon, he was so depressed that he struggled to get out of bed. Jordan, the...

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Far From Wall Street, Occupiers Find A New Focus

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Video, Homelessness, Wall Street, Brooklyn, Occupy Wall Street, Eviction, Foreclosure, Occupy Our Homes, Occupy Movement, Business News

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Since losing hold of Zuccotti Park skeptics have wondered how Occupy Wall Street would remain focused. On Tuesday, far from the skys...

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Occupy Our Homes: "I'm Not Leaving" (Video)

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Video, California, Wells Fargo, Take Back the Land, Ana, South Gate California, John Wellington Ennis, Atlanta, Occupy Our Homes, John Stumpf, Los Angeles, New York, Occupy Movement, Los Angeles News

In South Gate, CA, twenty minutes south of Los Angeles, dozens of supporters rallied around the home of Ana Casas Wilson, with several pledging to camp out in her front yard while she defies eviction, and face arrest if necessary.

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Occupy Activsts Help Families From Evictions As Part Of National Occupy Our Homes Action

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Occupy Chicago, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, East New York, Bailouts, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy NOLA, Evictions, Banks, Occupy Our Homes, Nevada, Occupy Atlanta, Gao, New York, Oregon, Business News

WASHINGTON -- In the late evening on Tuesday, Brigitte Walker welcomed Occupy Atlanta onto her property in an effort to save her Riverdale, Ga., home ...

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'I'm Not Going Through This Alone': City's Foreclosure Victims Vow To Stay Put

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 12.06.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of foreclosure victims and tenants' rights advocates gathered throughout the Bay Area Tuesday as part of the nationwide "Occ...

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Vacant Homes Impose Big Costs On Cities: GAO Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Vacant Homes, Housing Prices, Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Vacant Houses, Occupy Wall Street, Detroit, Occupy Our Homes, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Gao, Vacant Properties, Government Accountability Office, Housing Bubble, Video, Business News

The foreclosure crisis is costing cities at a time when they can least afford it. Millions of homes in America are standing vacant, and in many ca...

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Amid National Focus on Home Foreclosures, Iowans Point to White House

Michael J. Hunt | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Tom Miller, Occupy Iowa, Occupy DesMoines, Obama, Occupy Our Homes, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Offthebus, Politics News

An organizing organization with strong ties to both Occupy Des Moines and Occupy Iowa chose not to participate in Tuesday's Occupy Our Homes National Day of Action out of frustration with what they called President Obama's habit of "punting on policy" they say would help resolve the financial crisis.

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