Hat tip to jpinpb for sending this in, from Salon.com: Occupy Wall Street is promising a “big day of action” on Dec. 6th that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest “fraudulent lending practices,” “corrupt securitization,” and illegal evictions by banks. The...
From dsnews.com: The Occupy Oakland group is starting a new wave of occupations. They intend to occupy vacant properties. The Occupy Oakland group announced on Twitter earlier this week that its general assembly “just passed a proposal to encourage the occupation of...
Hat tip to daytrip for sending in a youtube of a demonstration over foreclosures in a NY courtroom. I don't think this is the answer, and doubt that it will lead to much. But civil disobedience has always had a place in America, can these protesters find a way to...
Hat tip to Daniel for sending this along, from Spiegelonline: The people who could ultimately give Greece the coup de grace are not the kind to throw stones or Molotov cocktails, and they have yet to torch any cars. Instead, they are people like 60-year-old beverage...
Haves and Have-nots - a widening gap here too. From Reuters: LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Just yards from the east London street where riots erupted on Monday stands a house for sale that sums up the depth of division in the area. With five bedrooms, three bathrooms and...
Four posts back was the article about principal reductions - below is the response from Irvine Renter, or click here to his blog: To give the hopeless a reason not to strategically default, several banks have singled out a few deeply underwater loan owners for...
