Getting Answers: Occupy MN Media and Occupy Homes MN
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Protesters have staged numerous occupations, most notably of the Hennepin County Government Center plaza. Protester Martha Ockenfels-Martinez said Occupy Homes wants the bank to negotiate a mortgage that allows the family to stay in their home. Police arrived to evict people from the house, located on the 4000 block of Cedar Avenue South, at 4 a.m., Kiava said. When officers arrived, they found the house's door heavily barricaded. We pride ourselves in being able to reach out to our entire global collective family. Instead of picking leaders, which you would then have to follow, leaders emerge organically.
Protesters occupied the 10th Avenue Bridge, blocking traffic for about a half-hour. Protesters said the Cruz home went into foreclosure in 2011, when the family's bank didn't accept an online mortgage payment. As punishment, the bank imposed a fine of two months payment.
Workers Face Mass Evictions: 5 Lessons from Occupy Homes Minnesota
Greg Mitchell’s new, short documentary addresses the California campaign for governor in 1934, when the boundaries between politics and media first became blurred. After five years of battling Bank of America for her home, a North Minneapolis woman wins the foreclosure battle -- and says "so many people in the same situation" can do the same.
The individualism of its members, in the midst of a movement, must be recognized and respected. We gather under a common name, with similar goals, but with individual backgrounds, needs, and visions of the future. To achieve real and lasting peace, however, the branches of the Occupy Movement and its many members must stand in solidarity. Discussion is a necessary component of healthy democracy and should be encouraged. However, it behooves us to remember that the health of democratic movements is also impacted by the cancer of sectarianism. Internal divisions and rivalries will rip any movement apart at the seams.
THE OCCUPATION OF MINNESOTA
The leverage that came from refusing to move was so effective, that many of these residents won what were considered impossible victories. Publicly pledging not to move transformed the foreclosure crisis from a largely personal decision to leave one’s home into a empowering political act of collective solidarity. While activists in other U.S. cities have occupied foreclosed homes, Minneapolis has emerged as a leader, said Newby. Occupy Minneapolis began as a protest encampment at Hennepin County Government Center plaza on October 7, 2011, renaming the site "The People's Plaza". It was eventually cleared out by law enforcement agencies after members of the Hennepin County Board chose to create new rules restricting the use of the public plaza.
"Occupy protesters say city proposal meant to stop demonstrations". "Occupy protesters settle into another foreclosed home despite arrests". "Police arrest 11 Occupy Minnesota protesters for blocking traffic on the 10th Avenue Bridge". "Occupy MN gets law enforcement OK for occupation of Government Plaza". Video of arrests of Reoccupy Minneapolis protesters on Nicollet Mall on April 7, 2012 showing KSTP cameraman Chad Nelson's camera flipped to the ground. Occupy Minneapolis is a grassroots collaboration that began in October 2011 with a series of demonstrations in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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On April 8, the Wall Street Journal reported nearly one-third of all apartment renters failed to make April rent. Most predict we’re entering a period like the Great Depression. 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment, with more expected as strategic sectors of U.S. capitalism like oil production face collapse. One president of a Federal Reserve Bank, whose job is to restore confidence in U.S. capitalism, predicts 30% quarterly unemployment, meaning an additional one-sixth of Americans would fall into poverty. According to Chris Gray, a teacher at Green Central, which offers Kindergarten through eighth grade, the families of roughly one in 10 students are homeless, and the home mortgage crisis has cost the school system $150 million. Diana Williamson of the Northside Community Reinvestment Coalition said that between 2008 and May 2011, the Minneapolis area saw 21,258 home foreclosures.
Due to a small legal loophole in Minnesota, sheriffs only had to change the locks and secure a property to count as an eviction. After that, City Hall’s police department had to try to carry out de-facto evictions because of trespassing laws. In more recent memory, Socialist Alternative played a leading role in organizing inspiring examples of resistance following the 2008 financial crisis.
We wish to see an end to the corruption of both corporations and government. We will persist until the voices of the people overcome the corrupting influence of money. We are creating a global sustainable community that values the health of the Earth and its inhabitants over corporate profits. That the General Assembly of OccupyMN orders that Congress introduce an amendment to the United States Constitution to end corporate personhood, effectively stating that “corporations are not people and money is not speech.
Not use substances in our spaces that may attract the police and cause harm to our community. We are a diverse group of people and we find strength in that diversity. No one person or group speaks for all of us as a whole.
To address the needs of the people, pacifism as pathology must be abandoned and a less dogmatic critique needs to be adopted and put into practice. A diversity of tactics, with the St. Paul Principles as a foundation to stand on, provides the freedom for that critique. Big developers, real estate investors, and landlords have disproportionate influence in the back rooms of City Halls across the country, and their main allies are Democratic Party politicians. Many of these politicians talk a lot about “affordable housing” when they need to win votes from working class renters and homeowners, who are a supermajority of voters in these cities. Rep Ilhan Omar and The Squad introduced federal legislation about cancelling rent, but they propose doing this by subsidizing landlords who opt into the program. Many cities already have programs like this to incentivize affordable housing, and landlords opt out to make more money or leave the “affordable” units vacant.
This put immediate pressure on politicians who presided over the law enforcement agencies that carried out the eviction. Longterm mass unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of decent health care offer a different type of public health crisis for working-class people than the immediate challenges faced during the Coronavirus lockdown. Slumlords, price-gouging corporate landlords, profit driven billionaire real-estate investors, and do-nothing corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle are part of the DNA of capitalism.
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