fathom dj / music stylist / producer

hoitycoity:

Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday after they dumped bags of trash from foreclosed properties into the bank and refused to exit the building.

Gloria Washington, 80, Donna Roberts, 56, Annie Harris, 76, Doris Strickland, 68 and Madeline Talbot, 61, all Chicago residents, walked into the Bank of America branch just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday carrying bags of trash collected from vacant foreclosed homes on the West Side, as part of a demonstration organized by Take Back Chicago.

According to Action Now, an advocacy group that helped organize the protest, a clean-up crew spent the morning collecting garbage and furniture from a Bank of America-owned vacant property in Garfield Park to deliver “to its rightful owners.”

Go on girls! Take Back Chicago is a community based organization that’s been fighting to return jobs, homes and educational funding to areas of the city that have been hit hard by the economy and the govt’s and banks’ responses to saving money. This event was partially in response to the problem of foreclosed homes owned by banks that have been abandoned and left to ruin, creating hazards for communities. Occupy this, occupiers.