06 December 2011

On December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn community to re-occupy a foreclosed home. The day of action marks a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy movement: the liberation of vacant bank-owned homes for those in need. The banks got bailed out, but our families are getting kicked out. The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street.

The NYC foreclosure tour and home re-occupation is part of a big national day of action on Dec. 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest fraudulent lending practices, corrupt securitization, and illegal evictions by banks. The Occupy movement actions, including eviction defense at foreclosed properties, takeovers of vacant properties by homeless families, and foreclosure action disruptions, will take place in more than 25 cities across the country.

Millions of Americans have lost their homes in the Wall Street recession and one in four homeowners are currently underwater on their mortgages. The 99% is bearing the brunt of a crisis caused by Wall Street and big banks.

That's why, all across the country, Americans have begun standing up to the banks that are trying to evict them. It's already happened in Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and cities and towns across the country. Now, it's happening in Brooklyn. Soon, it will be happening everywhere.

Wall Street and the big banks are making record profits while most Americans are struggling to stay in their homes. They break the law with impunity, but millions of us get served with eviction. They make trillions and get bailouts, while we face record unemployment and record debt.

No more! Our system has been serving Wall Street, big banks, and the one percent.

We are the 99%. We are reclaiming our democracy.
And we are reclaiming our homes.

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Each October for over 20 years, people have embraced the energy, excitement and inspiring solutions found at the Bioneers conference held in Marin County. In 2010, those things came to the Central Coast of California. They return October 14 to 16, 2011.
Central Coast Bioneers (a project of Ecologistics, Inc.) is a licensed Bioneers beaming site of the conference. That means the presentations of leading social and scientific innovators speaking at the Bioneers conference in San Rafael will be transmitted live to Central Coast attendees. Be part of the audience as 16 of the world’s brightest social entrepreneurs, scientists, NGO leaders, women leaders, educators, indigenous leaders and others bring us brand new, cutting- edge ideas for making our communities strong and resilient.

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Written by Angie King | 06 September 2011

Welcome to everyone reading this column for the first time and thanks to Information Press and Sandra Marshall for including us in the publication. For a long time, NOW published our news and views in the Women’s Community Center’s Women’s Press, including this column. However, at the end of 2010, the WP gave up its print edition, and concentrated only on the on-line version. While that’s a great ecological move (saves ink, paper and associated carbon exhaust), it also means that some people without daily access to a computer were unable to keep up with the action, and action is what NOW is all about. Check the national NOW web page for lots of information on all the topics that should interest you as a thinking woman (or man) at now.org. You can also check our local website thanks to KCBX at kcbx.net/~slonow.
Here’s a print recap of some of those issues for those who are reading this column. We hope to give you “food for thought” every month. This month, it’s the economy.

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