Join us for the housing and tenant actions as part of Occupy Wall St. West this Friday, January 20 to protest big corporate landlords and the role the big banks play in evicting tenants.

Our main SFTU action will be to Occupy Fortress Investments—the landlord of Parkmerced—at 4:00 PM at 1 Market St. Fortress is an example of predatory equity scams where landlords and banks buy apartment buildings with the intent of removing units from rent control or evicting rent controlled tenants and replacing them with market rent tenants. In this case, Fortress is demolishing over 1,500 rent controlled apartments at Parkmerced and has evicted hundreds of Parkmerced tenants in recent months.

From there, we’ll join the Mass March & Rally scheduled for 5 PM at Justin Herman Plaza (across the street from 1 Market St), which will wind up the day’s actions.

Here’s our schedule for the day:

9 AM Occupy Citi Bank 1 Sansome Street
We will bring our foreclosed home's furniture to our new home: right in front of Citigroup's SF headquarters at 1 Sansome. We will hold a housewarming party, red cups, (nonalcoholic) punch, and music. The action will be low-risk and we will disperse upon police order, when our police liaison says it's time. We may possibly relocate to another bank location with our moving truck and furniture.

!2 Noon Occupy Fannie Mae 50 California St.
We’ll protest the  role Fannie Mae played in luring homeowners into predatory loans and then foreclosing on them, as well as the thousands of empty homes Fannie Mae is sitting on—homes which could be turned into affordable rentals.

4 PM Occupy Fortress Investments 1 Market St.
We’ll demand that Fortress stop the demolition of rent controlled apartments at Parkmerced and we’ll demand that Fortress stop evicting tenants at Parkmerced.  We’ll try to occupy their office and give them a demand letter (this will also be a low risk action, leaving after we give the demand letter) and if we can’t get in we’ll try to demolish Fortress with some props.

Then join the Mass March & Rally at 5 PM at Justin Herman with Occupy SF, labor groups and community groups.
For all the Occupy Wall Street West actions see www.occupywallstwest.org