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The Next Phase Starts Today

Big day for the 99% movement:

The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street. Tuesday, December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn, NY community to liberate a foreclosed home. ... The Brooklyn action will convene at 1:00pm Tuesday. We are gathering at Pennsylvania and Livonia in East New York, Brooklyn (3 train to Pennsylvania or L train to Livonia) at 1:00pm to march through a neighborhood on the front lines of the economic crisis. […]

The NYC foreclosure tour and home re-occupation is part of a big national day of action on December 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest fraudulent lending practices, corrupt securitization, and illegal evictions by banks. The Occupy movement actions, including eviction defense at foreclosed properties and reclaiming vacant bank-owned properties, will take place in more than 20 cities across the country.

We are the 99%. We are reclaiming our democracy. And we are reclaiming our homes.

Adds Occupy Your Homes:

In 2008, we discovered bankers and speculators had been gambling with our most valuable asset, our homes---betting against us and destroying trillions of dollars of our wealth. Now, because of the foreclosure crisis Wall Street banks created with their lies and greed, millions of Americans have lost their homes, and one in four homeowners are currently underwater on their mortgage. […]

The Occupy Wall Street movement and brave homeowners around the country are coming together to say, "Enough is enough." We, the 99%, are standing up to Wall Street banks and demanding they negotiate with homeowners instead of fraudulently foreclosing on them.

More info at occupyourhomes.org and jpmassar's diary, including examples of early foreclosure-prevention successes. I think this is a creative and perfectly natural extension of the original 99%'er actions, and tailor-made for local news operations.

I wonder if Newt Gingrich will respond by telling people like 82 year-old Mary Lee Ward to get a job and take a bath. (Spoiler Alert: probably.)

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