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5 Signs Bank Of America Has No Humanity

November 12, 2013 Kevin Mathews, www.care2.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

If corporations are people, then Bank of America is a sociopath. The nation’s largest bank continually demonstrates that it doesn’t play nicely with other people. While the institution will gladly take your money, don’t expect it to have any respect for you in return. Here are five recent signs that BoA lacks humanity: 1. Stealing Homes Heartlessly foreclosing on homes and leaving families homeless is definitely greedy. However, when Bank of America is caught illegally fudging paperwork and rules to steal homes from families who met the terms to keep their property, that’s when it’s clear how despicable the institution is.

The 99%’s Deficit Proposal

November 8, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Create! Education, Finance and the Economy, Government, Health Care, Housing, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

This report puts forward evidence-based solutions that will re-start the economy and avoid placing financial burdens on future generations. For the most part these ideas are not new. They are well accepted by economists and are consistent with the views of super majorities of Americans on key issues. Further, more than three-quarters of U.S. citizens say the country’s economic structure is out of balance and “favors a very small proportion of the rich over the rest of the country.” They are right. The solutions to our economic crisis are evident but they are blocked by those who profit from the status quo and control elected officials through the corrupt U.S. political system and its money-based elections. The elites in Washington, DC seek to erase deficits that were caused by increases in war and military spending, tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, the increased cost of health care, as well as bank bailouts, and increased costs and lost revenue from the economic collapse.

Program For Global Uprisings Conference Now Online

November 7, 2013 Staff. www.globaluprisings.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights, Media, Worker Rights and Jobs

The program for the historic Global Uprisings conference in Amsterdam (November 15-17) is now online. Topics include: The causes of the current global uprisings and how these movements might lead to major social change, Origins of the Uprisings and Why They Haven’t Stopped, Direct Action in the Housing Crisis, What do the Uprisings Mean for Feminist and LGBTQ Organizing?, The Eurocrisis: Reports on Crisis and Revolt, Experiments in Self-Organization: Squares, Neighborhoods, Factories, Networking Resistance in the Mediterranean, Scenes from the Front Lines: A Collection of Short Films, The Visibility and Invisibility of Social/Class Struggle in Times of Crisis, Urbanization and Revolt, International Student Struggles, Migration: creating divisions and exclusions through discourses of racism and nationalism disguised as ‘policy’, Media and Communication Outreach, Reinventing the Strike, and The Permanent Crisis.

Anti-Foreclosure Activists Put BlackRock In A Hard Place

November 6, 2013 Sarah Jaffe, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

NYCC members made up a good part of the 30 or so people who walked in a picket line through BlackRock’s lobby, waving NYCC flags and holding signs that declared “The big banks took our homes away through predatory lending. Now, we're taking them back.” Jean Sassine of Queens Village held a letter from the Home Defenders League to BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink, whose $75.8 million salary makes him the highest-paid financial services CEO in the country, and who admitted before a crowd at a public event earlier this month that if something was not done about “wage compression” and foreclosures, “we’re going to have a greater ‘have’ and 'have-not’ society.” “Mr. Fink knows that keeping neighborhoods together should be a priority but has decided to fight the city of Richmond,” Sassine declared in the lobby of BlackRock, his words echoing off the granite and from the mouths of his colleagues in the “people's mic” style of crowd repetition. “He has decided to make BlackRock a leader in doing the wrong thing.” The protest was just one of several actions taking place across the country on Wednesday, coordinated by the Home Defenders League in solidarity with Richmond and its underwater homeowners.

(De)Occupy Protesters In Hawaii Receive Jail Time

October 30, 2013 Staff, www.kitv.com Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

Two (de)Occupy protestors were sentenced to prison on Monday. They were found guilty of obstructing government operations after refusing to move when city crews were citing and removing tents from the sidewalk at Thomas Square. If Catherine "Sugar" Russell is feeling remorse for obstructing government operations, she didn't show it. Neither did Blade Walsh. But, both face time in jail for their actions while the city was removing tents and other items from sidewalks. "My father would be proud to have me protecting people," said Russell. "He instilled integrity, charity and standing up for those who need help. I am pono. Blade is pono. Madori is pono and (de)Occupy Honolulu is pono." Russell describes herself as a "protesting houseless advocate."

Protests Target Pimco & BlackRock Over Opposition To Housing Recovery

October 30, 2013 Nick Sifuentes and Amy Schur, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013, homeowners and community supporters in a number of U.S. and Global cities will visit the corporate offices of giant money managers Pimco and BlackRock as part of an escalating campaign by homeowners, community groups and unions who are fighting for local principal reduction programs in Richmond, California and numerous other cities across the country. Fed up with inaction on troubled loans and BlackRock and Pimco’s opposition to the local principal reduction program called CARES (Community Action to Restore Equity & Stability) protesters will disrupt business at each location until they meet with senior officials about their attempts to intimidate cities considering local principal reduction programs, including the potential use of eminent domain. Both Pimco and BlackRock unsuccessfully sued the city of Richmond over its proposal.

Video: Struggling Homeowners Storm Senator’s Office

October 29, 2013 Occupy Our Homes Atlanta, www.youtube.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Housing

On Monday October 28th 2013 struggling homeowners from around the South East converged on the office of Senator Johnny Isakson, who has threatened to join his Republican colleagues in filibustering the confirmation of a permanent director of the FHFA. A new director of the FHFA could institute massive debt relief through principal reduction for every mortgage controlled by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who control more than 60% of all mortgages. We need to get rid of Edward DeMarco and institute massive principal reduction now!

Photo Essay: October 29, One Year Anniversary Of Occupy Sandy

October 27, 2013 Andrea Ciannavei, www.nteroccupy.net Create! Climate Change, Housing, Occupy

On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy brought climate change to our shores, homes and hearts beyond any shadow of a doubt. Shortly after the storm subsided, Occupy Sandy began as a spontaneous effort by a group of people who felt compelled to act in response to disaster. Together, a network was created of more than 50,000 volunteers who were able to provide over 300,000 meals, rebuild or remediate over 1000 homes, and provide in excess of a million dollars worth of supplies through in-kind donations. Nearly 1 year after the storm, serious rebuilding is still just getting underway. Most of the money to rebuild New York hasn’t gotten to the people or infrastructure where it’s needed most. Fortunately, Sandy’s 1-year anniversary is an opportunity to honor the storm’s victims and—in a world increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters—to organize for action.

Elderly Family’s Eviction Fuels Housing Rights Movement

October 27, 2013 Christopher D. Cook, a href="http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/elderly-familys-eviction-fuels-growing-san-francisco-housing-rights-movement?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark" target="_blank" >www.alternet.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights

On a glaring-hot, near-cloudless day in San Francisco Sept. 25, an elderly Chinese American couple, Gum Gee Lee and her husband Poon Heung Lee—and their disabled 48 year-old daughter Shiuman Lee—were about to be physically removed from their home of 34 years by deputy sheriffs following a court order to carry out yet another Ellis Act eviction--enabled by California law that allows landlords to take housing off the rental market and sell it. Landlord Matthew Miller, who bought the 1506 Jackson Street building (along with neighboring units) in 2012 for $1.2 million, demanded the Lee family vacate the property so he could turn the units into upscale tenancies-in-common and turn a huge profit in San Francisco’s searing-hot real estate market.

Register To Learn How To Stop Evictions And Foreclosures

October 22, 2013 Shab Bashiri, www.occupyourhomes.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Housing, Occupy

Over the last two years, Occupy Our Homes groups around the country have helped hundreds of families fight to stay in their homes, winning houses, farms, and even churches back from the bank. We've liberated vacant bank-owned homes in order to provide stable housing for those in need. We've worked with communities to set up Eviction Free Zones, where neighbors have pledged to defend each other from wrongful foreclosures and evictions. We've learned that the only way to hold Wall Street accountable is to come together and organize-- to create a world where people, not banks, have control over their communities.

One Year Anniversary Of Occupy Sandy

October 21, 2013 Staff, www.occupysandy.net Create! Environment, Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty, Racism

As the one-year anniversary of HurricaneSandy approaches, folks in the New York & New Jersey area are taking time to reflect on the strength and resilience of our community this past year. Occupy Sandy began as a spontaneous effort by a group of people who felt compelled to act in response to disaster. None of us were comfortable sitting by as others suffered. Your contribution helped improve immediate and long term circumstances for many affected by the storm. Each individual’s role was essential in building our collective power; whether working on the ground, contributing financially, baking a lasagna, supporting our information infrastructure, or sharing the Occupy Sandy story.

Success! Palm Restaurant Withdraws Support Of Urban Camping Ban

October 19, 2013 Janet Matzen, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Housing, Human Rights

The Boycott the Urban Camping Ban Coalition is pleased to announce that The Palm Restaurant has officially withdrawn support for Denver’s Urban Camping Ban Ordinance passed in May 2012. On May 6, 2012, Occupy Denver held their first Boycott in protest of the Urban Camping Ban at Snooze A.M. Eatery.1 It was attended by not just members of Occupy Denver, but activists from Denver and surrounding areas who were concerned about the treatment of their fellow human beings, the homeless. The “Urban Camping” Ban Ordinance was passed by the Denver City Council on May 14, 2012, at which time an ongoing weekly protest lead by Janet Matzen and Occupy Denver began at Snooze A.M. Eatery and later attracted coalition partners. On April 5, 2013, Snooze issued a statement reversing their position in support of the Ban.2 On April 26, 2013, the Boycott was moved to The Palm Restaurant Denver and a weekly Friday night boycott began.

Shutdown Solution: Opt Out Of Tyranny

October 18, 2013 David DeGraw, www.daviddegraw.org Create! Democracy, Education, Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, Health Care, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty

The overwhelming majority falsely believes that we can’t create change, which is why we are in this mess. The mainstream media has propagandized most people into feeling like we can’t do anything to fix the problems we are confronted by. BULLSHIT!! We live in the richest, most technologically advanced society humanity has ever known. We don’t need the plastic puppet politicians anymore. They’re obsolete! It’s time for us to evolve society by starting our own autonomous local communities. Occupy inspired thousands of autonomous camps. What if we reestablished those camps as permanent Sustainable Autonomous Zones? There are already many intentional communities and collectives that are organically growing all over the place. Let’s learn from them. We’ve dedicated our energy to working on a plan to create a decentralized network of Sustainable Autonomous Zones so we can begin creating self-sufficient communities that can model new ways of living that make present ways of living obsolete.

We Want Freedom: Black Panther Party Founded Today In 1966

October 15, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Education, Health Care, Housing, Human Rights, Police abuse, Racism, Wars and Militarism

"On October 15, 1966 the Black Panther Party was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in response to rampant police brutality in Oakland. While ultimately decimated by state repression the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s and early 1970s was one of the leading organizations in the United States advocating not just for black liberation, but for socialism and social justice more generally. Below is the 1972 Ten Point Program of the Black Panther Party. Dealing with issues of racism, police brutality, access to healthcare, housing, education, prisoners' rights, and US "wars of aggression" it is stunning how much of their platform remains relevant today."

Mayors Around the Globe Leading an Urban Green Revolution

October 6, 2013 Stephen Leahy www.ipsnews.net Create! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Housing, Transportation

With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level. “Cities are on the front lines of climate change,” Richard Register, founder and president of Ecocity Builders, an organization that pioneered ecological city design and planning, told IPS. With the backing of their residents, many cities and towns around the world are becoming cleaner, greener and better places to live by banning cars, improving mass transit, reducing energy use and growing their own food while adding public and green spaces. “Getting cities right solves many problems,” Register said. Cities are truly ground zero for action on climate change, protection of ecosystems, biodiversity, energy use, food production and more because that’s where most people live today, he said. Cities consume about 75 percent of the world’s energy and resources. They are directly or indirectly responsible for 75 percent of global carbon emissions.

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