Occupy Our Homes - Gayla Newsome re-occupies her West Oakland home
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Uploaded by SeeTheEvidence on Dec 6, 2011
On Dec 6th Occupy Oakland in conjunction with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) participated in a national day of action known as Occupy Our Homes.
On that morning activists gained access to the vacant building previous owned by Gayla Newsome, inviting her and her family back into house they had called home for fifteen years. In July of 2011 Newsome's home fell into foreclosure after repeated attempts at obtaining a loan modification through Chase Bank failed.
Occupy Oakland demonstrators and ACCE activists re-occupied the property with the intent of maintaining a 24 hour presence in the home until lines of communication to Chase Bank and Residential Capital Management were opened and good-faith negotiations could begin on allowing Gayla and her family to reclaim their home.
According to ACCE activist Tanya Dennis, who successfully re-occupied and reclaimed her home back in 2009 through a similar tactic, techniques have proven effective in keeping families in their homes and buildings off the auction block.
Participants in a rally earlier in the evening were careful to note how banking practices like those which evicted the Newsome's are a direct cause for increased gentrification in the West Oakland area. According to one speaker, there exist at least two investors who individually own more than one hundred West Oakland properties.
Just a few miles away earlier in the day Occupy Oakland protesters successfully interrupted auction proceedings taking place at the Alameda County Courthouse where, according to OccupyOurHomes.com they, "Disrupted the foreclosure auction at the Oakland county courthouse. More than a dozen homes were prevented from being auctioned." Additionally "A delegation of a family under foreclosure threat met with Wells Fargo officials, who agreed to postpone the foreclosed home's sale."
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This is truly inspiring watching people support real people in their time of need, way to go occupy~!
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