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- Stop foreclosures! - Save our homes!
- Stop foreclosures in this town! - Hey, hey, walk around!
They've blocked the doors.
Specifically, we're targeting Wells Fargo...
because it's one of the banks that has the worst track record...
of closing people out of their houses and destroying communities...
by selling faulty loans and then using what they created through faulty loans...
to completely remove people...
from the places they live and the communities they live.
- Who bailed out the banks? - We bailed out the banks!
Dozens of us here are blockading Wells Fargo...
because enough is enough.
Personally, my family - my parents lost their home.
They had to move into my uncle's home, and his home was also foreclosed on.
And then today, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, Chase Bank...
are all involved in trying to take away my grandmother's home.
The banks got bailed out here, my family got kicked out.
This is happening all around the country...
and it's time that the banks understand: they've gotta pay.
- Banks got bailed out! - We got sold out!
That's what the banks are doing to the people of this country.
We bailed out the banks and they're foreclosing on our homes.
And I don't think that's right. That's why I'm here today.
We were just getting ready to retire...
and 36% of our money was gone.
And now just recently our health insurance has gone up...
to where it's almost half of my husband's retirement.
So, that's very concerning.
But being, you know...
I want my money back, and I want Wall Street held accountable.
And that's why I'm here.
In Oakland...
90 percent of the foreclosures are concentrated in three zip codes.
So you can tell that it was systematic.
It's not distributed evenly across the city.
It's like concentrated in deep East Oakland.
People are - elders, a lot of elders were targeted.
We also have a lot of people who are monolingual Spanish speakers who were targeted...
and some of the poorest black people.
And to anybody that says to you the 99 percent that are camping out on the streets...
the 99 percent that are fighting back in union halls...
the 99 percent that are organizing in low income communites of color don't have demands?
- That's a lie. - A lie!
They're not trying to hear our demands, and that's a different thing! Am I right?
Do we have demands to make of the one percent?
Crowd: Yeah!
Do you have demands to make of the one percent?!
Crowd: Yeah!
We have them - we wrote here on the wall...
We are demanding the foreclosure of Wells Fargo, am I right?
Crowd: [cheers]
- Is Wells Fargo part of the one percent? - Crowd: Yeah!
Do we demand that Wells Fargo implement a moratorium on forelcosures today?
Crowd: Yes!
Is five hundred and nineteen years enough?
Are we done?
Are we over foreclosures?
Are we ready for the end of the theft of our land?
Are we ready for a moratorium on private prisons...
and the incarceration of immigrants, of black people, of asian people...
of poor white people, of communities that have suffered enough?