We pointed to a new front of protests against the banks, namely, efforts in California to obstruct foreclosure auctions. In Greece, they are much more frontal. A translation of how they go about it, from The Greek Streets (hat tip reader Deontos, via Richard Brennman): The committees ‘I do not Pay’ stopped house auctions at the courthouse on Sep 21 in Athens. They invaded the courthouse where houses confiscated by banks were to be auctioned, with a banner writing ‘No house to end up at the hands of bankers’ and chanting slogans entered the room where auctions were to take place, they made bank lawyers and other scum who went to buy the confiscated houses to leave the room and the judge chairing the auctions had to cancel them.
In the US, I can’t imagine this working. The judge would get a bailiff or cops to haul the demonstrators out. But it serves to highlight an interesting issue. The Greek government is resorting to increasingly draconian measures to collect taxes (attaching them to electricity bill, so you lose your power if you can’t or don’t pay).
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