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The Theft of Everyone’s Home: A Personal Account of the Fall of #FuerzaHernandez

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By Adam Rice, of the LA Anti-Eviction Campaign. Originally published on the OLA Tumblr here


At 4:30 am on December 27, 2012, over 200 members of “Law Enforcement”, including some 50 LA county sheriffs deputies, and more than 150 LAPD officers descended on 14620 Leadwell St. in Van Nuys. They brought with them the implied violence of firearms, armored vehicles, tear gas, and full riot gear, all to throw one family out into the street and end the longest post-eviction foreclosure defense in California history.

That morning, on Sherman way and Van Nuys blvd., one block away from the Hernandez home, a homeless woman was set on fire at the bus bench that had been her spot for years. Even though 200 sworn officers were just down the block, a civilian had to chase down the attacker, and hold him for 30 minutes till the police arrived because the police were too busy with their eviction plan to make more people homeless.

Everybody's Home: A New Movement For Fighting Eviction [counterpunch]

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Everybody's Home

A New Movement for Fighting Eviction

by LESLIE RADFORD

In the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Van Nuys in northeast Los Angeles, houseless people like JoJo have barricaded themselves for more than ninety days inside the property line of the home of Hernandez family, aspiring to the fabled “middle-class,” to prevent the family’s imminent foreclosure eviction.

IF YOU’RE FACING FORECLOSURE, METRO CITATIONS ARE NO JOKE

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VAN NUYS, CA, Oct 15—In what can only be understood as continued harassment on behalf of

banks and retaliation for resistance, LAPD cruisers and a Department of Sanitation truck lined the
street outside the Hernandez family’s Van Nuys home this afternoon and declared that furniture
and a temporary wooden barricade on the property are violations of city sidewalk ordinance 56.11.
The Hernandez family, facing imminent foreclosure, currently have proceedings pending before
the court for two earlier 56.11 citations, noting that there are no sidewalks in front of their home
and no immediate threat to public health or safety. The Hernandez family has erected the ten-foot
barricade in symbolic protest of their impending, fraudulent eviction by Bank of America with the
help of neighbors, the Occupy Movement, and other grassroots groups.

Ulises Hernandez Arrested on "Warrant" for court appearance he made!

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Update 7:50PM: Ulises has been released after being bailed out, and is probably already home as I type this. Thank you to all the phone calles to the SFV LAPD as it surely helped speed up his release!

Update 6PM: Ulises is being bailed out right now, and will be back to the Fort in a few hours.

Update 5:30PM: The LAPD are now claiming he is being held on an unpaid metro ticket, and it will cost $561 to get him out of jail.

Where Are the Occupiers When Howard Berman Needs Them?

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Wednesday night’s packed Town Hall at the Robert A. Millikan Middle School auditorium in Sherman Oaks (January 4, 2012) to meet Congressman Howard Berman (D), the San Fernando Valley’s longest serving representative, was an informative and low-key affair about a good number of hot-button issues, punctuated by occasional but persistent outbursts from . . . the sound system.

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