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11 Occupy San Francisco Protestors Arrested For Blocking Bank Entrance

Police arrested eleven anti-Capitalist Occupy Wall Street protestors in San Francisco yesterday for trespassing and blocking an entrance to a Wells Fargo office tower.

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The protestors yelled similar slogans to their downtown Manhattan Occupy comrades, though the main focus of the arrestees was on home foreclosures.

As she was being placed in a police van, one protestor yelled into the cameras “the banks are stealing our money,“ and then ”my dad lost his job because of globalization.”

Another handcuffed protestor yelled that police should “arrest the real criminals inside for stealing our money.”

The Occupy Wall Street-San Francisco branch started the protest at the Federal Reserve and caused the city’s trolley service to shut down for two hours.

Protestors then marched to the Wells Fargo office tower, which at first caused the building to shut down. Later, police escorted employees into a secure building entrance until the protestors dispersed. Another nearby Wells Fargo branch was forced to close for the entire day due to the protests.

Pete Woiwode, 28, a protest organizer, spoke with Reuters by cell phone from the scene and said:

“Wells Fargo is a good target because they have been very involved in the foreclosure crisis, kicking people out of their homes. Our message is: Stop kicking people out of their homes, start paying your taxes.”

Wells Fargo released a public statement that the bank recognizes the frustrations of Americans in the current economic climate, but pointed out that Wells Fargo repaid all of its taxpayer TARP money including an additional $1.4 billion profit.

Watch the video below to see the Occupy San Fran protestors scream about foreclosed houses, including the appearance of a former union official who said the police were protecting banks against the people:

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

Comments (77)

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  • JohnnyMidknight
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:31pm

    What a minute… the lady states that her father lost his job due to globalization…. Does she understand globalization? It is the philosophy that to improve the standards of the economically depressed regions, jobs of low skill sets are sent to increase the wages of the lower class of other companies. IT IS A SOCIALIST AGENDA in a capitalist frame. The theory is that as the wages increase for jobs in the undeveloped/developing countries the wage in developed countries would drop. Then the world will find a happy median that all wages for equal skill sets are equal in price in every country. The theory also supports that as the wealth of developing nations increases, so does their populace gain the ability to educate and be competitive in other, higher skilled sectors. Also, as their wealth expanse, the populace gains access to products and goods that were foreign to them. China is current proof that the system actually works. It just has not gotten to a point were trade has equalized between us and them, but it is happening (look at hay prices and the fact that China is importing hay from the US to feed their cattle because our quality is better than theirs).

    However, the Communist will always say that it is capitalism just using the populace of the other country as a slave for low wages. She needs to read a book and see what the push is for. There will always be poor and rich, only in a free market can the poor and rich freely move up and down.

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  • MaxineH20Sux
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:30pm

    The banks are responsible for kicking people out of their homes? I think the person who gets the mortgage SIGNS THEIR NAME PROMISING THEY WILL PAY BACK THEIR LOAN. A bank doesn’t point a weapon at your head telling you that you must sign the paper and you must pay them money and you must buy that home. You have a right to rent and not get a mortgage if you so want to. The comments from these morons who don’t even have a mortgage is seriously comical. They need to protest outside of politicians homes who made the mess not the banks!

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 3:56pm

      If they take the house back you should get the money you DID pay back.

      If I try to buy a house for 100,000 dollars and am able to pay 90% of it over the course of ten years before I lose my job and foreclose, the bank gets to walk away with the house AND my 90,000 dollars I did pay AND whatever I paid in interest over those ten years

      They are encouraged to approve you for loans they know you wont be able to pay back because they stand to make MORE off you than you can potentially cost them by not paying.

      It’s a messed up system and it needs correcting.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:25pm

      ” If they take the house back you should get the money you DID pay back. ”

      - No, you promised to pay the entire amount due. If you don’t, you lose your money & your house. Those are the terms of a mortgage. And you signed the dotted line KNOWING those terms.

      ” They are encouraged to approve you for loans they know you wont be able to pay back because they stand to make MORE off you than you can potentially cost them by not paying. ”

      - Can‘t blame the banks if you accepted a loan YOU KNEW YOU COULDN’T AFFORD. Again, you willingly signed on the dotted line.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 6:17pm

      @VoteBushIn12.. So in otherwords you want to live for free.. Let me make it simple for a simple mind… If you rent an apartment for lets say 5 years and stopped paying your rent due to loss of job so they throw you out, now you deserve to get ALL the money that paid in rent over the 5 years back ? What are you nutz , or a liberal ? How about you take a loan out for a car and after 2 and 1/2 years you can’t pay anymore and only have 6 months left to pay so they repossess the car and YOU should get all that money back that you paid into it, huh ? Hope that makes perfect sense to you.. Somehow, I don’t think so though..

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    • cdison21
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:57pm

      What don’t you understand votebushin12? No one forces you to buy a house, you can rent your whole life if you please. What you stated about paying 90% then possibly losing your job and losing your house and all you paid is true, but you could also pay 90% in a strong market and decide to sell your house and make a great deal of money. If you did make money on your investment does the bank have the right to take some of that money? Answer, no, but keep thinking as you do and I can assure you someone will take your money and your property at gun point, the government.

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    • CottonMPG
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:33am

      So you think you should be paid to default on your mortgage? Live there a while and when you get bored and want to move just stop paying your mortgage and the bank gives you a bunch of money!!! Wow!! Great idea!!

      Of course, if you are a bank you might not want to sell mortgages anymore. After all you spend your money on a property that will most likely lose value, knowing that you will have to give back any money you gained AND try to resell a house that may have been vandalized or allowed to fall apart. Then maybe only people who can pay cash can own houses or other properties.

      You know…….I think I see why mortgages don’t work that way. The reason banks do sell mortgages is that they win most of the time. They have to take the chance that you will stop paying and tear up the house leaving them with a struggle to resell and hope they get at least most of what they loaned you, but most of the time they actually make a profit.

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:30pm

    This just goes to show how dumb these protestors are. Wells Fargo repaid the loan that was forced on them, with interest. The bank doesn’t foreclose on people making their mortgage payments. I know my mortgage is with Wells Fargo. Do these people really think you should get a free house?

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:38pm

      Yes BLACKHAWK .. yes they do .. along with free food, healthcare, education (how’s that working?) etc!

      TEA!

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  • dsind
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:24pm

    what a bunch of drivel.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:24pm

    I am completely against these OWS loons, but did want to mention Cain‘s economic’s expert(?) that helped with 999 is tied into Wells Fargo. SO, his Federal Reserve and government involvement with Tarp is deeper than you may think.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:23pm

    How dare those mean old banks make us pay back our loans! This is an outrage!

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  • mad_hatter
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Did you see the new attack. Now it‘s ’Occupy’ the GOP Candidates. They started with Mitt Romney in Seattle: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/oct/occupy_mitt_romney.html

    They are attacking him for being a conservative and capitalist.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:23pm

    DEMO gogs don’t believe in growing the economy, they believe in cannibalizing it. They think wealth is stolen, not created.

    WE KNOW BETTER.

    The problem is not that people have different amounts of wealth. The problem is that government has been overrun by clueless socialists who think economic cannabilism is a good thing. It buys them votes and power – all done with other people’s money. If they had to create their own wealth they would have no clue.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:22pm

    Ahhh San Francisco, the land of “fruits and nuts”. All these people need to be rounded up and dropped off in the middle of Afganistan and find out what 3rd world living is like!

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:20pm

    Again, this is just the begining. They won‘t get what they want because these Flea Baggers don’t know what they want, except free everything and only Obama gets that. When these useful idiots realize that they are simply pawns and nobody really cares about them. The media will get bored with them or something worthy of reporting on will make the liberal media ignore them, they will start to riot and loot. They will break laws and cause destruction and the LIberals, the Democrats, the Obama administration will have blood on their hands.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:18pm

    We haven’t had a free market for a century. The solution is not MORE regulation and government, they are the CAUSE, not the SOLUTION.

    The solution is freedom.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:22pm

      i am confused, the pretty girl is against globalization and is the problem, but wants the world to unite for a new world order? isn’t that globilization?

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:17pm

    A communist hippie in a suit is still a communist hippie. We aint’ fooled by the clothing, van Jones.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:16pm

    So who gave them the money, freely of their own choice? Hello, idiots, if you want to keep your money, first step is to earn it. The next step is to keep it.

    And vote out the rascals who keep stealing it from you. Namely Democrats, but to a lesser degree, Republicans.

    Now read some good books on economics, by Adam Smith, Hugh Hazlett, von Mises, Hayek, etc. GET A CLUE your democrat cronies are USING you to achieve their economic ends. Tyrants all.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:14pm

    We the people did not bail WELLS FARGO out.They did not need Government money ? San Francisco the land of fruit and nuts!!!!!

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:14pm

    Yes, the banks are stealing our money. They paid big bucks to buy our Senators and Congressmen. Now that the banks own your representatives (and your representatives have near absolute power)they get whatever they want.

    Do you see the flaw in your philosophy yet? (Not holding my breath….)

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  • PApeacemaker
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:13pm

    Round up all these smelly hippies & commies & re-educate them. Maybe a huge camp would work, they could work during the day to pay for there room & board & then take classes at night to learn how to get & then hold a real job & start paying taxes like the rest of the regular people in this country.

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  • big-jeff
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:13pm

    Well, the unions took his money every paycheck and gave it to Democracks.

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  • El Gato *****
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:13pm

    The true believers will not let this effort fizzle out. They have worked behind the curtain since the 1960s fomenting this. To come so close in achieving their life’s goals (the destruction of the U.S.) without results is a non-starter.

    We can expect violence in the coming days.

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  • AlansTigg
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:09pm

    how exactly are the banks stealing their money?

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:08pm

    They learned that move from the black panthers.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:08pm

    To the first kid whose whole family is “being foreclosed on”….why don’t you take your beef to al gore, van jones, barry oloser, nancy pelousy, harry reid, and the rest of the real villains?..and don’t forget Uncle George, the real big cheese.

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  • steveh931
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:07pm

    Because of Globalization! Why are you protesting and helping those that want to join your country with the New World Order. Three Blind Mice, Three Blind Mice.

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  • flfshrmn
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:04pm

    The FLEA PARTY has no momentum behind it any more. “Occupy” was cool for the first few days but now its a lot like work trying to satisfy the likes of Van Jones and the unions. These kids can’t relate to staying on task for the long haul. The kids don’t even know what they are there for other than to camp out and smoke dope and get there 10 seconds on TV.
    The FLEA PARTY has lost its momentum, it never had focus, its becoming un-fun..“Occupy” has become a drag.
    Rules #5-6 of Rules for Radicals:
    6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
    7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

    The FLEA PARTY is finished……Its ASTRO-TURF!

    Time for the real protestors to show up and do the dirty work…..Panthers, Unions, ect.

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    • Michael61
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Exactly. The next step: violent riots.

      Watch the old interview of Yuri Bezmenov (KGB agent in 1970s)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS8LA-5fmrs

      Everything happening today is a part of the old KGB plan which consisted of:

      1. Subversion and demoralization of American society; brainwashing college professors with communist ideology; destruction of family and religious values

      2. Economic, political, foreign relations crisis

      3. Normalization: benevolent dictator (i.e. Obama) coming in and promising to fix the broken system (hope, change, and order)

      4. When it doesn’t work, people will revolt and the communist revolution will be the only solution

      Like Glenn Beck keeps saying: Watch the other hand.

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    • john luther
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:18pm

      That is why you have to degrade it any chance you get along with the media.What is actually becoming irrelevant are people like you and the fact that everything you stand for and the people you put in place to represent you are a complete failure

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:53am

      The Tea Party is carefully preparing for 2012. We will not lower our standards to the OWS level.

      It is obvious that you have never attended a rally. We have not fizzled out, to the contrary. We have meetings nationwide. We have been educating ourselves and will be very evident in the coming election. The Tea Party is alive and well,.Our numbers are growing and you can expect to hear about it soon.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:01pm

    fubar!

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  • I SPY
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:01pm

    You gotta wonder how many of these thugs actually have a high school diploma.

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