OCCUPY SF Run on the Banks Mission District 1/14/2012 We Are Change SF Coverage Pt. 12
January 31st, 2012
No more for-profit evictions in the Mission District! Sat, January 14, 12pm — 3pm Where BART Plaza at 16th & Mission St, San Francisco CA (16th Street Mission BART) Description Thousands of renters and homeowners in San Francisco are being evicted by banks each year. ________________________________________________________ Occupiers Take Rooftop of SF Bank Protesters calling for an end to home foreclosures from the roof of a bank in San Francisco’s Mission District were arrested this afternoon. Police around 1:45 pm arrested five protestors who had climbed on top of the roof of the Wells Fargo at 16th and Hoff streets more than an hour earlier as about 200 people gathered on the streets near the bank. The arrests came after protesters on the roof refused to come down until representatives in the bank below faxed a demand letter to Wells Fargo CEO John Stump calling for an immediate moratorium on home evictions and foreclosures. A police liaison apparently told protesters that the letter had been faxed to another company representative and not to Stump, according to Occupy SF Housing organizer Julien Ball. Moments later, police arrested the five protesters, who climbed down a fire engine ladder before being led to a nearby patrol van. Before the arrests, a protester on the roof announced to the crowd that if the group could not arrange a meeting with Stump by midnight on Jan. 19, Occupy SF Housing protesters would “occupy every bank in the Financial District the next day …
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