November 09, 2011 journal, finally occupy Wall Street are occupying foreclosed houses to house the homeless people getting them off the streets even if they do not have power yet. "A loose-knit coalition of activists known as "Occupy Homes" is working to stave off pending evictions by occupying homes at risk of foreclosure when tenants enlist its support. The movement has recently enjoyed a number of successes. We speak with Monique White, a Minneapolis resident who is facing foreclosure and recently requested the help of Occupy Minneapolis. Now 2 dozen of its members are occupying her home in order to stave off eviction. We are also joined by Nick Espinosa, an organizer with Occupy Minneapolis, and Max Rameau, a key organizer with Take Back the Land, who for the past five years has worked on direct actions that reclaim and occupy homes at risk of foreclosure. "The banks are actually occupying our homes," Rameau says. "This sets up for an incredible movement, where we have a one-two punch. On the one hand, we're occupying them on their turf, and on the other, we're liberating our own turf so that human beings can have access to housing, rather than them sitting vacant so that corporations can benefit from them sometime in the future." AMY GOODMAN: Bloomberg News is reporting U.S. foreclosure filings rose 7 percent in October to a seven-month high. It attributes the spike to lenders speeding up action against delinquent borrowers. Well, we turn now to an offspring of the Occupy Wall Street movement: the Occupy Homes movement. The loose-knit coalition of activists aim to stave off pending evictions by occupying homes at risk of foreclosure when tenants enlist their support. The movement has recently enjoyed a number of successes. In New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters occupied a derelict Harlem building's boiler room until the landlord agreed to provide adequate heat and hot water to tenants. Meanwhile, in California, Occupy Los Angeles protesters held a vigil outside a home at risk of foreclosure, then organized a sit-in at the Pasadena regional office of Fannie Mae. The bank eventually called off the eviction and agreed to renegotiate the homeowner's mortgage. Well, for more on the Occupy movement around homes, we're joined by three guests. In Minneapolis, we're joined by Nick Espinosa, an organizer with Occupy Minneapolis who has helped local residents stave off evictions. He's with Monique White, a Minneapolis resident who is facing foreclosure. She recently requested the help of Occupy Minneapolis, and now two dozen of its members are occupying her home. And here in New York, we're joined by Max Rameau, an organizer with the Take Back the Land movement. For five years, Max has had-has worked on direct actions that reclaim and occupy foreclosed homes. We want to welcome you all to Democracy Now! Nick Espinosa, talk about the Occupy movement's focus on preventing foreclosures. We are-we're focusing on foreclosed homes now. We believe that it's time for us to bridge the gap between the protests that are happening on Wall Street and the communities that are most affected by this crisis. That's how we-that's how we got in touch with Monique, and that's why we're bringing the fight into communities like North Minneapolis, which has seen about 40 percent of Minneapolis's foreclosures, even though there's 13 percent of the homes there. So we see this as an incredible opportunity to expand the Occupy movement and to bring it into communities and neighborhoods. Well, in some cases, yes. In other cases, foreclosed homes that are not yet empty, because the people, the families living there, haven't been evicted yet. But either way, we're liberating those homes for families, not occupying. The banks are actually occupying our homes. We're in there, a liberation. I think this makes an-sets up for an incredible movement, where we have a one-two punch. On the one hand, we're occupying them on their turf, and on the others, we're liberating our own turf so that human beings can have access to housing, rather than them sitting vacant so that corporations can benefit from them sometime in the future. Now, with this Occupy movement ramping up, I think we have a significant chance to keep large numbers of people in their homes, which is one level. And it seems like we're seeing some levels of success right now with that in L.A. City Life/Vida Urbana in Boston has been doing an incredible job with that. The next step, then, is going to be to secure those homes, make sure people get to stay there, liberate them, and then force that-not only force the banks to allow the families to stay in the home, but also then force policy changes that would help thousands of other people for whom we're not doing eviction defenses. We have a network of organizations. We're not a national organization. We call ourselves a translocal network. We network local organizations. We have a nonprofit that allows organizers like myself to go and do trainings in different cities. But really, people are doing this on their own. They're not doing it because we're telling them to do it. They're doing it because we just don't have any other choice. So, we've had a few in Miami that we've done. And we just did one in Chicago. There's a young lady in Chicago named Martha who we moved into a vacant home that had been vacant for quite some time in Chicago. We went there, scouted out the neighborhood-and that's through the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign-scouted out the neighborhood, looked at the house, found the house in good condition. Then we talked to all the neighbors and said, "Look, this place is empty. We have a family that needs a place to stay. We would like to move them. It will help out the family. It'll improve your neighborhood, because you won't have so many vacant homes in the neighborhood. We'd like to have your support for it." And we held a press conference, moving the family in, and all of the neighbors came out and supported that. And we're there, and the family is still there. And that's been three months or so. And the neighbors have signed onto pledges agreeing that if the police come to try to evict that famil0y, they're going to block the eviction, physically block the eviction there. And that's with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign in Chicago. And I hope that they see this and they start realizing that this is no shame. They're just basically taking our families' homes. They're taking our American Dream. They took their American Dream, and they're not going to take mine. NICK ESPINOSA: Well, you know, it's amazing that-how when we shine a light, with the attention that we've been getting, on cases like Monique's or Ruth's, how quickly these banks are actually able to negotiate with homeowners, when, across the country with people who are facing this crisis, they're completely unwilling. And I believe that it's become clear that, as we continue this movement, we'll see that they can, and they will, negotiate when the pressure is on. And we need this negotiation to happen not just for Monique and not just for Ruth and other families, but we need a grand bargain with banks to change the way that they negotiate with families, because right now they're just throwing people out on the street, and that doesn't do anyone any good. The neighbors are losing property value. Monique will be out on the street, potentially. Our schools are losing revenue. And the banks are selling these homes back at about a tenth of the cost. You know, a house across the street from Monique sold for $9,500. And they're not willing to renegotiate with her on a $130,000 mortgage? It's just complete and utter madness". The banks are selling those mortgages for about 8¢ on the dollar and we must assume the FDIC restores the bank to fall mortgage value plus interest on the taxpayer. "The dangers of the banking cartel were known to Jefferson at the time the Rothschilds (the false Jewish Zionism) were beginning to spread their influence around Europe in the late 1700's, and today their grip on just about all aspects of contemporary society is beyond the understanding of most people, including those who are now demonstrating. For example, there are only five countries left in the world which do not have Rothschild-controlled monetary systems. What really needs to happen is for this banking conspiracy to be exposed for the crimes against humanity it has been committing for hundreds of years, and to halt its secret goal of world domination." I have a serious dry mouth with the saliva glands not working due to anxiety reaching a critical stage last-night and frequent eliminations. My mind and heart seems to be at war with my body. I seem to have passed through a portal into an outer dimension and I cannot go back in time to correct my mistakes. I will soon come upon the date-age my daddy passed on and my brother's recent passing has disturbed me also. I pray 3 times a day to Yesu my Lord for deliverance. Should the Lord Yesu Christ delay his second coming I pray all people to have a home. I pray that I may live to see every homeless person in America provided a place to live. I pray that I may help reveal the Antichrist that has taken over this country and the world. I pray that all bank mortgages will be neutralized and let the people live in their houses. I pray that I may live to see all the abortion mills in America abandoned in favor of life. I pray for the persecuted Christian people worldwide and for the sick to be divinely healed. I pray for an absolute end to the ill-conceived wars that spill the blood of innocent people. There is much i want to do on this earth if my stomach will settle and my strength return. "I do not think this will die off. The problems are too big and the system too broken. The political and economic system is not going to be able to address these problems and the people will continue to protest The poverty figures, the debt and unemployment figures, the deficit, the breakdown of the system is too big to allow people to just go back home many of them have nothing to go back to.. We get the rosy side of these figures. There is going to have to be fundamental structural change and that takes time. The banks are going to have to go in their present form. They will not be able to address the problems. They created a monster that took them up, now it is taking them down." by noinfo. openbible.ministries@btopenworld.com Dear Alan-I am happy to see your website. I find from the Old English Oxford Dictionary the gravitation of the word/name of Christ Yesu to Jesus over hundreds a years. Should you not use the original name? The King James Bible English translation of 1611 spelled Christ name with an I, Iesus. I appreciate your ministry. 1335.com