Occupy Atlanta trying to save cop's house

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    Originally Posted By skinnerbox

    This story is simply wonderful:

    <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/08/363692/occupy-atlanta-encamps-in-neighborhood-to-save-police-officers-home-from-foreclosure/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/speci...closure/</a>

    "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..."

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    Originally Posted By DDMAN26

    This I can get behind and is what should be representative of the Occupy movement. All that other stuff I can't support.
     

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