Run On The Banks: No More Evictions or Foreclosures For Profit!

Occupy SF Housing Media Advisory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Amitai Heller or Stardust, +1 415 937-7759, press@occupywallstwest.org

Run On The Banks: No More Evictions or Foreclosures For Profit!

San Francisco Protests to Keep Our Neighbors in Our Homes

San Francisco – January 3, 2012 – Occupy SF Housing today invited the 99% to participate in an escalating series of “Run On The Bank” actions to demand an end to for-profit evictions and foreclosures in San Francisco and beyond:

* 12:00-1:00pm, Thursday, January 5: Bank of America, 3250 Mission St.
Senior protestors from Occupy Bernal tell B of A to stop raising fees, pay fair taxes, and use the bailout money to stop foreclosures.

* 12:00 noon, Saturday, January 7: Persia Triangle in Excelsior District (Mission St., Persia Ave. and Ocean Ave. intersection)
The banks evict thousands of renters and homeowners in San Francisco each year. San Francisco’s Excelsior District has been especially hard hit by the wealthy 1% bank corporations preying on the 99%. This action will protest evictions and foreclosures by Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Chase, demand that the banks reverse evictions to get people back in their homes, and ask people of the Excelsior to withdraw their money from these predatory banks.

* 12:00-1:00pm, Thursday, January 12: Bank of America, 3250 Mission St.
Senior protestors from Occupy Bernal tell B of A to stop raising fees, pay fair taxes, and use the bailout money to stop foreclosures.

* 12:00 noon, Saturday, January 14: Plaza above 16th St Mission BART station
No more for-profit evictions in the Mission District!

* 6:00-8:00pm, Sunday, January 15: Location TBA
Occupy SF will conduct a General Assembly/Town Hall Meeting in the Mission District – everyone from the neighborhood is welcome/encouraged to attend and participate in an open discussion regarding issues local to the Mission and their correlation with the Occupy Movement

* All Day, Friday, January 20: Dozens of Locations Focused on SF Financial District
Occupy Wall St West actions to shut down the financial district’s banks and corporations most involved in evicting tenants and homeowners.

Occupy SF Housing is a coalition which includes Occupy SF, SF Tenants Union, Housing Rights Committee of SF, Causa Justa::Just Cause, Eviction Defense Collaborative, ACCE, Homes Not Jails and others. The coalition came together to stop banks from evicting tenants and homeowners from their homes through foreclosures or through their partnerships with real estate speculators.

To sign up for the presslist and/or obtain photos and video of the actions, see http://www.occupywallstwest.org/wordpress/?page_id=20

For more information, see http://www.occupywallstwest.org and http://www.occupysf.org.

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Flyers and Posters

A variety of flyers and posters are available for the January 20, 2012, Occupy Wall St. West action, in various colors and sizes. Not all flyers and posters are available in all sizes and colors. If you have a request for another size or color, or if you have a poster to add to this page, please click on Contact above and fill out the form to let us know. For additional formats of some of the flyers and posters, check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/owswest (thanks to Oona).

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JPG, Color, “Corporations are Not People”
OCCUPY-FLYER-CHINESE Word document. black & white, Chinese language flyer (heavy on text)
OccupyWallStWest_J20_Quarter_bw_spn2 quarter flyers, pdf, b&w, horizontal woodblock
jpg hi-res (can print up to 11″ x 17″), color, black cat
OccupyWallStWest_J20_11x8.5_bw_spn3 pdf (8.5X11), b/w, spanish woodblock print
OccupyWallStWest_J20_11x17_2color_spn one color, one b/w pdfs; 11X17 posters; vertical woodblock in Spanish
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OccupyWallStWest_J20_11x17_CMYK pdf 11X17 posters, English vertical woodblock
OccupyWallStWest_J20_11x81.5_bw pdf 11X8.5, b/w, horizontal woodblock w/meet up times

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Occupy The Courts Action

At noon on January 20, occupy a court in San Francisco: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at 7th and Mission. Please widely publicize, support, and participate in the long-planned national January 20 Occupy the Courts actions marking the 2 year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v FEC.

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Liberate The Commons Action

In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street West Day of Action, an affinity group under the umbrella of Occupy San Francisco will liberate a building within San Francisco’s Financial District. On January 20th, 2012, the affinity group will reclaim a foreclosed building for the 99% with the long-term goal of maintaining a space that serves public interests over private interests. In San Francisco, the misappropriation of property by the 1% has left 32,000 units vacant, while current census data indicates that there are 11,000 documented homeless persons subsisting on our streets. The affinity group aims to elucidate the corrupt and unjust eviction and foreclosure processes that force countless people from their living and work spaces for profit. Reclamation of the space is done in recognition of this injustice. More information will be released weekly leading up to the Occupy Wall Street West Day of Action.

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Goldman Sachs Action

Gather at Goldman Sachs office, 555 California Street, San Francisco, at 6:00am on January 20, 2012.

Back in 2009 Matt Taibbi referred to Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” In honor of SG’s continued blood-sucking, we will fry up some squid in front of GS’s headquarters, preventing customers from entering. So bring a small frying pan and we’ll provide the squid.

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Occupy Stonestown Bank Branches

Join students and supporters at 19th and Holloway (SF State University) at 8:15 am on January 20 for a march to Stonestown Galleria bank branch direct actions: Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo. Take a stand against predatory student lending practices, and attacks on poor and working class people. Called by The Debt Offensive affinity group of Occupy SFSU (San Francisco State University).

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Occupy the Governor Action

At 3:00pm on January 20, occupy Governor Jerry Brown’s office in San Francisco: State Office Building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue. Please join us to demand that the state government tax corporations and the wealthy 1% to restore education and other crucial services for the 99%. Called by The Debt Offensive affinity group of Occupy SFSU (San Francisco State University).

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