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<div class="main_text"><p>According to an article in Sunday’s <em>New York Times Magazine</em>, Oakland is the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/magazine/oakland-occupy-movement.html?pagewanted=all">uneasy host of the Occupy movement’s purest incarnation</a>. That may be. But it’s Berkeley City Council that’s turning Occupy’s ideas into resolutions. <br><br>Last week, the council <a href="http://berkeley.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=911">voted unanimously</a>
to pass a resolution that calls on Alameda County officials to consider
eminent domain as a means of keeping homeowners with troubled mortgages
in their homes. An article in the <em>Bay Citizen</em> Monday <a href="http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/mortgage-relief-plan-embraced-berkeley/">traces the resolution’s lineage back to a self-styled Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a shaky financial past</a> and connections to the Occupy movement. </p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>