On
Tuesday, demonstrators from Occupy New Orleans and Survivors Village —
“a community group of former St. Bernard public housing residents and
their allies” — disrupted a foreclosure auction taking place in New
Orleans.
The demonstrators used a
mic check to denounce the auction taking place, calling it immoral.
“The sale of blighted property is the city’s attempt to remove poor
homeowners who have already suffered tremendously from economic and
natural disaster. Blight has become an excuse to gentrify,” they said. “Charging poor homeowners outrageous fees in order to steal their homes is an underhanded way to keep people displaced.” Watch the demonstrators disrupt the auction: Read more 
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