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scar on the phone it's a pleasure to welcome to the program abby clark she is
one of the organizers of the occupy our homes you get more information a hockey
pyare homes
dot org
and uh... we have a budget clips that we're gonna be posting on our side a
majority got after them
linking to u_s_ uma stories from what happened yesterday with the program abby
thank you very much really thrilled to be here
uh... for stuff
uh... how did you get involved in the occupied our house what what what what
was the behind the idea launch it
well like
domain people all over the country i ways
so excited when the occupy movement
started in new york and
i'm from the midwest
and
we don't have of wall street
in michigan
parting from and though i don't but haven't tell me
conversations with friends
wanted to do something that wanted to do your part of this movement but didn't
know how
too
bring it home and make it we all can
all of our community
and that we talked about that and we talked about eqp
that banks and making sure that it
we doubtless feel that they'll get that what we're doing and that we realized
that
that like
is for closure in these communities what brought down our economy
uh... incoming way they fit mortgage cricket
and that this is something
affecting absolutely every american all over the country
and
that we could hopeful real people and our community it
we helped them fight
foreclosure and fleeing their homes and it's
something america needs something the economy
right so uh...
eg give me a sense of religious what took place yesterday
when dapat really incredible i didn't work out
parental we started talking about this literally
academic picture eight weeks to go
it was just an idea
uh... something that could happen and we
just a pink
two weeks ago today the website watched and we've been talking to people accross
the country and then
yesterday we get there were over
forty accent
accross the country thousands of people involved
uh... in
that needs to kind of different cities uh... in every every weekend of the
country daryl berke
uh... home reclamation seaweed moved comic family inches palm print on the
city
statement families who are resisting foreclosure and trying renegotiate with
banks and other cities
uh...
there were destruction dot foreclosure auctions kicked off
people comes from being auctioned away from them
um... there well rallies held a press conference that it is jugular marches
that is just a really incredible thrilling day of action
and so how many
loans uh... at the mo
um... are being occupied and
by occupies that are foreclosed homes or uh... alternatively and maybe also how
many homes have been replying
for families it didn't have homes
these would-be gun ongoing now projects correct
right back at the court pakistan ongoing admit uh... weekly
it's sometimes hard to keep track because there are
occupations in people doing that that were n theory that touch wid but that
also yesterday
happening in kitty it we have no idea we're going to happen it will be
found that things were happening appointee things were happening in
salt lake city bad we didn't know about so we note that
their are
hello occupation happening in athens
boarding card
uh...
and that
i can actually see how many apparently correct on may tenth and how many up
those are helping family if you still but i do have calmed but i think in
foreclosure
an alcoholic
uh...
summer kind of each
uh... if we want to get more information about the specifics in other words if i
want to see if there was one of those my city and i want to go join
where i wanted to go support them
uh... where i wanted to get on some type of uh... text alert in the event that
uh...
they needed my help or something that we would like to know is there a central
clearing house for these things
everyone clearcoat occupier
our home
dot org
and sign up with a their we are working on developing better stick found to
coordinate
uh... people in different locations are they love the idea of the text alerts at
them and that something that
pitbull hopefully try to name
uh... and if we also have a thief but group are occupy our promise
on
it but so anyone from what i thought there
and that we
a mean thing groups working in a lot of places that we connect
people
so sometimes we get the people contact act
and smaller towns
in main aur
we're confident that we don't have a creep cognac so as we are getting more
and more people contacting us
the more people contacting her
expecially offering to help that act that
felt wonderful correct that we needed we need everyone empal panetta so that we
can
help more and more upbeat homeowners and make this trip
crewe large-scale
national movement with that'd be perfectly
now are you doing
matter are you doing this out of michigan were you involved in any
actions yesterday or we you coordinate ing it from basically uh...
uh... year of the online uh...
apparatus
nowhere i pulled the carpet
get inc
orevox sitting and a broom in defeat running picard meet the online
you don't collect up a cracked at work i mean to keep people impact with the
product
knew it you know a lot of that
communications impregnation so i was on that team uh... by i'd also and getting
involved in organizing and mix again so we had a family
in
academic attacked uh... betrayed proper
contact us through the website last week
and i uh... make sure
heard that they got in touch but um...
wonderful organizers we occupy detroit from other michigan department entrance
and we were able to take help great a fact that they uh... passed yesterday
there but few
um... leave their house in january but they're going to
reedexpo and that they're trying to renegotiate with bank of america which
they've been trying to do for years eileen that
who's one of the really common story is that people have cried and cried and
cried ticket
well not can and accepting the they
they panicked newark
so many people eg are employed are hard working but
help if you can't advocate setback for anyone to have their we've had how many
akita really wrenching story
coming in the end
e it's wonderful to be able to help them and their family and pelkey
they're not
you know over ethical activity day all right
regular people they have a big political right now they're involved in this men
and
they with the help of some organized through three chapter neighbors reach
out to that
their church and
a huge crowd
people came out
despite the yesterday that you know the holds yard with full of people with fine
is that they're going to then let them so
really anything and i really hope more people get involved with a well i'll
tell you something for for
or a
um... an action that has been in the plan is in in the planning have been put
to plan for only six day weeks
you certainly scare the heck out of bank of america
uh... there an email came out i'm sure you've seen this
internally in the haha
uh...
uh... by the bank of america the uh... b_a_c_
that american parisians field services
um... basically outlining like
this could have an impact on our industry
here things to do and we'll get you more information essentially is weekend
uh... i think this is going to be uh... i think this is is really just an
incredible
um...
and an incredible
or action to take
in in
through reaching out to people who are on the front lines of suffering from
uh... the implications of this financial crisis in the uh... male malfeasance by
these banks working people go if they want to see so more of these uh... these
individual stories because the ones i've seen have been absolutely
heart-wrenching uh... the idea of uh... of a family with their kids to
might have an opportunity on a home for the first time and in really just need
help to work out this alone in the way that and
business who is in this type of situation with the bank would have the
opportunity to do and uh... it's impacted the small
all increasing fees the bank will get even though they'll jump this house
where he lives lost they can push that often somebody else they're just looking
for the fees
a picnic
graphic outfall
it's ridiculous typically politics is working in our country right now
and network
getting more and more explained
and
are coming and over at the website all the time to we're
rushing to keep up with posting
new story on the website occupy our homes dot org
uh... we love her
video
you know that something that gift
anyone coca video common action yesterday if anyone wants to make a
video telling their story that something that we will
absolutely used
um...
because you're exactly right that his if banks dot
bailed out
the squarely in the dollar's a taxpayer money
and yet some people sink that was a good idea from people dot regardless
nothing anachronistic
even remotely has been done for regular american homeowners
this tactic that they think doesn't just affect
people who had
improper found in a decade
it doesn't just affect people who may be facing foreclosure
or do you think that people which and we were talking about millions of people
who are underwater and their mortgages
different text absolutely everyone
and every neighborhood
even people who got very responsible
thirty-year mortgages nothing your fancy and have kept their job's been fortunate
that they have been struggles with the health issue our top off
uganda people
have lost enormous amounts of money that they thought with safe because it was
tied up in their home people thought that that was
their statement and
when there's a foreclosure and the neighborhood
it brings found a home values in that entire neighborhood
so it affects everyone people need to stand with their neighbors
one because it's the right thing to do but also because
it in there
special-interest who has
desktop its
it hurting everyone paddy clark from occupier
dot org thanks so much for joining us and please of feel free to pass on
divided nations of
homes that are going on going in people want to
uh... colleges program to give us an update over the uh... coming days and
weeks
more than um...
uh... we'll be more eggs than excited to talk to those people uh... we think we
do is is tremendous and keep up the great work absolutely crazy film
traveling and we really appreciate the correct