bobbyw24
11-18-2011, 02:29 PM
Monique White of North Minneapolis has been hosting weekend barbecues for friends and family for years. On Sunday, her usual guest list of friends and neighbors expanded to include protesters from the local spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street movement. They'd come to try and stop the bank from throwing White out of her house.
"These people are here to support me -- and not only me, just to let other people know and be aware of what's going on," White said.
What's going on is American homeowners are still slogging through the aftermath of a recession caused by the near-collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Since then, bailed-out banks have allegedly treated struggling homeowners so badly that state and federal law enforcement agencies are negotiating a multi-billion dollar settlement, and federal bank regulators have offered to check for wrongdoing in any foreclosure that happened in 2009 or 2010.
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1308402070494&id=9be4d4f9933d297b95d64bac0c60914c&url=http%3a%2f%2fpdfcast.org%2fimages%2fs%2f1483%2 foccupy-wall-st.jpg
Occupy Wall Street kicked off in September to protest economic injustice, and now in at least three American cities, Occupy protesters are using the stories of local residents losing their homes to dramatize and protest the ongoing foreclosure crisis. In each case, Occupy-affiliated protesters have pitched their tents on the lawns where they don't want to see local sheriff's deputies pile the belongings of an evicted family.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/occupy-wall-street-foreclosure_n_1097974.html?ref=business
"These people are here to support me -- and not only me, just to let other people know and be aware of what's going on," White said.
What's going on is American homeowners are still slogging through the aftermath of a recession caused by the near-collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Since then, bailed-out banks have allegedly treated struggling homeowners so badly that state and federal law enforcement agencies are negotiating a multi-billion dollar settlement, and federal bank regulators have offered to check for wrongdoing in any foreclosure that happened in 2009 or 2010.
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1308402070494&id=9be4d4f9933d297b95d64bac0c60914c&url=http%3a%2f%2fpdfcast.org%2fimages%2fs%2f1483%2 foccupy-wall-st.jpg
Occupy Wall Street kicked off in September to protest economic injustice, and now in at least three American cities, Occupy protesters are using the stories of local residents losing their homes to dramatize and protest the ongoing foreclosure crisis. In each case, Occupy-affiliated protesters have pitched their tents on the lawns where they don't want to see local sheriff's deputies pile the belongings of an evicted family.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/occupy-wall-street-foreclosure_n_1097974.html?ref=business