Organization builds a tight-knit national community while preventing foreclosures
SEE ALSO: - Brother Ali on Occupy Homes and the foreclosure crisis - Occupy protesters settle into another foreclosed home despite arrests [PHOTOS] [UPDATE]- Occupy Homes MN to deliver 6,000 signatures to US BankOn Wednesday night, while about 150 people were in Monique White's yard, listening to Br ... More >>
Yesterday, a day before her home was scheduled to be sold during a sheriff's auction, Colleen McKeen Espinosa learned that Citibank agreed to change the terms of her mortgage so she can stay in the house she's lived in for more than 15 years.That's a good story in its own right, but there's an added ... More >>
Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview discussing the Occupy Homes movement, which Ali wil ... More >>
At an Occupy Homes MN march early yesterday evening at US Bank in downtown, three marchers who refused to leave the bank's lobby were arrested by the Minneapolis police. They were not, however, dressed in Guy Fawkes masks and black bloc. Instead, cops lead three "OccuPirates" dressed in tri-cor ... More >>
The Occupy Homes movement -- an offshoot of OccupyMN and Occupy Minneapolis -- is still fighting to keep two Minneapolis homeowners' families from being evicted. This evening, a group of marchers is bringing over 6,000 signatures to US Bank, in the hopes that the downtown-based lender will find ... More >>
Demonstrators kick off the occupation of Bobby Hull's home.While many fret about the waning momentum of the larger Occupy movement, Occupy Foreclosures seems to be picking up steam. Occupy MN has been involved in an attempt to save three homeowners from eviction -- the latest is Marine veteran ... More >>
Occupy protesters moved into a foreclosed south Minneapolis home Saturday night. The protest almost failed at the beginning: Two occupiers were arrested after police descended on the house to evict the demonstrators. But the rest of the group retook the home, forming a human chain around the h ... More >>
