Protesters occupy foreclosed homes

Homeowners and demonstrators gather in front of a home where the owner was given an eviction notice in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday. “We’ll treat them all as trespassers,” Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said of anyone squatting in a home.
Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against income inequality. Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.In Atlanta, protesters held a boisterous rally at a county courthouse and used whistles and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New York, they marched through a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn carrying signs that read, “Foreclose on banks, not people.” Los Angeles protesters rallied around a family of five who plans to reclaim the home they lost six months ago in foreclosure.
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