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- panacea0
'They took my place!' Single dad trying to take back home occupied by OWS
They’re occupying his home.
Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned.
“They’re trying to take a house and say the bank is robbing the people because the mortgage is too high — so contact the owner!” fumed Wise Ahadzi, 28, who owns the home at 702 Vermont St. in East New York.
Occupiers “reclaimed” the row house on Dec. 6 and ceremoniously put out the welcome mat for a homeless family.
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- agree, credibly coordinated maintainable core competenciestroller
- animatedgif0
That thing still going?
- panacea0
- it all sounds great from the comfort of your parents' homezaq
- are you actively protesting today? who's their leader? I'm still at a loss, what's their next step? Same goes for Tea partypanacea
- I'm utterly convinced you're on someone's payroll to be here and elsewhere in the interwebsTheBlueOne
- why would I want to be on someone's payroll?panacea
- popfodders needs to get your ass back in teh kitchen pan!74LEO
- pablo280
Bucharest, Romania
- verbidextrous0
do flash mobs ever happen, anymore? i haven't heard of any, for a while. i really thought that one of the next things to happen after OWS and other places got removed would be to get the occupy flash mob thing going. seems like a natural fit. a hoard of like-minded individuals descend upon a square, or an event, do a quick, video-recorded, mic check and disappear into the crowd, around the block, into the next shop. if it's done well enough, i think few if anyone would get arrested. you can occupy a place, if you need to, but it doesn't need to be for any length of time, does it, if it's sufficiently recorded? i dunno. just a thought.
- Only Improv Everywhere seems to do flashmobs now.i_monk
- flash doesn't run on iPadsmonospaced
- pizzafire0
http://www.miamibeach411.com/new…
Unlike the Occupy movements in various cities throughout the United States, the Occupy Miami movement survived 2011 without a single activist getting arrested.
That all changed Thursday when some Occupy Miami activists drove across town to Florida International University to join Occupy FIU activists for a planned concert on campus.
- pizzafire0
- meh.zenmasterfoo
- really? "meh" is all you've got? not very constructive.pizzafire
- he's paid to say that. move along.akrok
- i like the "bank of ideas". ;-)akrok
- pizzafire0
- ha ha that's about the extent of it toopanacea
- "keep austin weird"
fuck yeah!johnny_wobble
- panacea0
Occupy Nashville Forced To Explain Fist Fight On Christmas Day
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/occup…While in New York, the cleaning up of Zuccotti Park slowed the momentum of the increasingly large and difficult to control Occupy Wall Street movement significantly, many cities across America have yet to clean up their own “occupations,” Nashville among them. The Tennessee protesters had an ugly mishap this weekend, however, as the protesters erupted into fisticuffs on Christmas Day.
- panacea0
While President Obama Arrives in Hawaii Amidst Security and Fanfare, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Slips Quietly into Big Island Resort
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/wh…According to West Hawaii Today, she spent previous Christmas holidays in Kona at the same hotel in an elaborate suite that rents for $10,000.
- utopian0
Occupy vs. Ron Paul
Five members of the Occupy the Caucus movement in Des Moines Iowa were arrested this morning while blockading the entrance to Ron Paul's campaign headquarters.
Using their iconic mic-check speaking style, the protestors spoke out against Ron Paul's campaign pledge to close the Environmental Protection Agency if elected.
Sitting arm in arm, the members of the Occupy movement chanted; "We are fighting for the future generations. In order to live we need clean air, clean water, and safe food. Don't dismantle the EPA. We won't allow this business to open before our demands are met."
Police gave the protestors the opportunity to move from the private entrance to the public sidewalk twenty feet away. Some complied, but five refused to move and were arrested.
Many of the occupy demonstrators claimed sympathy, if not outright support for the ideology of Ron Paul, which made this protest especially uncomfortable for both the occupiers and the campaign.
One of the arrested protester's named Clark Davidson claimed to be a Ron Paul precinct captain as he was led away in handcuffs.
"I don't believe with Ron Paul on every single issue...I came to stand with my sisters. I came to address that with the campaign and I just got arrested," Davidson said.
No one from the Paul Campaign was immediately available for comment.