Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure

[one_voice]

Occupy Atlanta has repeatedly run into hurdles, as it has been evicted from Woodruff Park in Atlanta multiple times by the city’s unsympathetic mayor, Kasim Reed. Yet the group was invigorated yesterday as it moved to a new location to take action for economic justice.

Last week, Tawanna Rorey’s husband, a police officer based in Gwinnett County, e-mailed Occupy Atlanta to explain that his home was going to be foreclosed on and his family was in danger of being evicted on Monday. So within a few hours Occupy Atlanta developed an action plan to move to Snellville, Georgia on Monday to stop the foreclosure. At least two dozen protesters encamped on the family’s lawn, to the applause of neighbors and bystanders:

Nearly two dozen protesters assembled Monday afternoon at Tawanna Rorey’s four-bedroom home in a neighborhood just south of Snellville, clogging the narrow, winding street that runs in front of the house with cars, vans and TV trucks. Many neighbors stopped to gawk at the spectacle and even honked their car horns in support of the crowd. <...> set up two tents in the front yard, draped a “This Home is Occupied” sign over the porch railing and handed out bottled water and granola bars to other member

The Sheriff’s Department did not come to evict the Roreys that day. A spokesman for the department told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the foreclosure process is still ongoing and that it has not scheduled an eviction. “It’s a good cause,” said Diona Murray, one of the Roreys’ neighbors, about the occupation. “If we don’t take a stand, who will?”

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/08/363692/occupy-atlanta-encamps-in-neighborhood-to-save-police-officers-home-from-foreclosure/

[KamaAina]

1. Hell yeah!!! Meanwhile, in Oakland...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2263433&mesg_id=2263433

This looks like the next phase of the movement!

[gateley]

2. Heartwarming - reminds me of the Christians and Muslims in Egypt

forming protective circles around the others so they could pray.

This shows that Occupy is in this for the right reason - fairness to All. Can you imagine the Baggers springing to someone's defense like this? Me, either.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Someone will be by shortly to explain why this is disappointing to them.

It's required, I guess.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Required as well as obsolete. Love and compassion are the new way, thankfully.

[RebelOne]

4. The Occupy Atlanta group is moving on to help other

homeowners in danger of foreclosure. They rallied the neighborhood to help out where they have left off. It is now know as Occupy Gwinnett.

www.wsbtv.com/s/news/gwinnett

[Raksha]

5. "If we don't take a stand, who will?" Damn good question!

[sakabatou]

7. My girlfriend used to live in Snellville for a short time.

I know off-hand comment, but this is a great move by Occupy.