Just for reference, the Occupiers will not be in Snellville when they gather at 3:PM. The property in question is located well outside the Snellville city limits, in unincorporated Gwinnett County. That doesn't mitigate the circumstances for the family facing eviction, but this is not a Snellville issue. A more accurate headline would be , "Occupy Atlanta Moves to Southeast Gwinnett County".

Atlanta news is referring to it as Snellville. Thats how I heard about it this morning.

Smart girl joy, why doesn't Occupy put forth more effort to enlistn the power of the minority community..........Hmmmmmmmmm

I live very close to this home, in unincorporated SNELLVILLE and am pretty annoyed. I consider myself a moderate, leaning more left than right, but I really, really don't get this. I am open to persuasion, but what good is this going to do? I'm not very excited about the fact that this is happening close to me, because it feels like one step away from a riot. And what good, really, does this do? Are they going to un-foreclose it? It's very unfortunate that this family is losing their home, probably because of being unemployed. My family and I have been through it too. But I think this is just futile.

Very, very sad. I agree with the frustration and anger, but what good does the Occupy movement do? I'm not being sarcastic, I really would like to know. Is it just making a statement? What's the goal?

Crystal- it is very sad, and it's a scenario that is literally being played out daily across the nation. And the Occupy group just doesn't get it-- or doesn't want it. Consider the name of the movement-- "Occupy"-- take up space and do nothing. That should tell you all you need to know. The "Occupiers" appear to have no specific goals other than complaining; their core mantra is 1% has stuff, we're the 99% who doesn't have stuff. We want their stuff".
Without question, they have identified some issues that need to be addressed, but standing around and complaining won't lead to anything besides more standing around and complaining. And while they're doing that, they're minimizing the plight of people who are in serious need of help. Would you really expect anything positive to result from a group of do-nothing complainers and hangers-on?

Despite what the people who paid for Dave Emanuel's campaign would like you to think, I can honestly state that the Occupy movement, which is an INTERNATIONAL movement, is giving a voice to people being effected by economic turmoil. I cannot speak for the entire Occupy movement, or even Occupy Atlanta, but since I've started my involvement with the occupation I've met 4 senators; some well-known civil rights leaders; and hundreds of WORKING people who want the best for their families and communities. The city of Atlanta has spend HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars trying to stop us from assembling peacefully. We are assembling because something is wrong with this country. We are joining together because many political figures are letting banks and large corporations buy America right out from under our noses. This is a serious issue that WILL NOT be properly delivered by the media. WE are the people. Why are banks getting bailed out when foreclosures are going up? How does that HELP US? Maybe the occupation movement is a little bit unorganized right now. Maybe that's because Occupy Atlanta, for example, is celebrating their one month anniversary tonight. And if we're this big after one month, imagine how large we'll be after 10 years.

One major problem is that the U.S. no longer manufactures anything. We just buy it all from Asia. The only jobs that are available are tech jobs or customer service; ie. white collar jobs. Not everyone is cut out for that type of job. Back in the mid and late 20th century, a person could work at a factory their whole life and retire from it, while living a middle class life. Now, besides the fact that no one can raise a family on minimum wage, those types of jobs are not available. And if your job can be done overseas for 1/100th of the cost, you will lose that job. But again, what's the solution? If we started manufacturing again, no one would be able to afford the product. Have our eyes been opened to the futility of materialism? Is it corporate greed, or consumer greed that's the problem?

A solution to the issue won't come right away, but there are a couple things Occupiers are pushing like moving your money to localized banking and credit unions; trying to pass more bills to keep big business and banks from robbing our state/federal officials from that; and even occupying foreclosures to prevent working families from not only losing the thousands of dollars they already paid into their mortgages, but also the roofs over their heads. We are a very young movement that jumped out of the woodwork pretty fast, but given time, WE WILL MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. As a side note, when I sat in a meeting hosted by Rev. Jesse Jackson last week, he stated that we need to remember that Mayor Kasim Reed isn't our enemy. Our war isn't with him, but with the CEO's of Bank of America, Suntrust, and Wells Fargo... I think more and more occupiers are starting to wake up to that fact and I'm slowly starting to see an expansion of demonstrations and marches to draw attention to this. In the same regard, however, occupation has been a form of expression of civil unrest throughout the evolution of human society. Some may say we're using too many of our resources to get that goal accomplished, but its working so far. If we weren't occupying would we be getting as much publicity? I'll let all of you reading this decide that for yourselves.

Dave, if I could vote in snellville, I would definitely not vote for you, for one simple reason, you have placed occupiers as delusional individuals with concerns that need to be hidden away in some closet, instead of listening to that group, and finding ways to fix their issues. You have clearly taken sides of your party heads instead of becoming a better moderate liberal and representing both sides of the fence.

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