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

[Huey P. Long]

Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure
By Zaid Jilani on Nov 8, 2011 at 11:30 am


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 members.

A local CBS station filed a report about the new occupation. Watch it:


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

[valerief]

1. I wonder if the police officer will come out and mace them and beat them with a baton. nt

[HappyMe]

3. Okay.

:eyes:

[bemildred]

2. That's the way to do it.

The cops are our cops, we belong together.
:thumbsup:

[valerief]

4. Unless they're paid big bucks by the .01% to mace people and beat them to a pulp.

Then they're not with us. They're against us.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. AH! my eyes! My Eyes!

Your Answer is way to Bushy sounding! BAD memories! BAD BAD BAD!!!!

[valerief]

6. I guess you haven't been paying attention to the cops paid overtime by Corporations to beat

Occupiers. You know, what the MSM ignores reporting on. Apparently you don't know what "Bushy" means.

[RebelOne]

7. Occupy Atlanta is moving on.

They rallied the neighbors to keep watch. The neighborhood group now calls themselves Occupy Gwinnett. No link yet. It was just reported at noon by WSBTV the local Atlanta channel.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Beautiful! Wonderful!

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Go #OccupyAtlanta! Brilliant work!

[Tsiyu]

10. Awesome

We work together, no telling what we can do.


If the mayors and gubbners keep setting us against each other, it's going to get ugly.

Our leaders (Talking to you, Kasim Reed) need to get over themselves and allow free speech and protest.

It's part of the New Reality.

Deal. Or be dealt out....(by the vote, of course)