Eviction blockade rallies around retired Springfield firefighter

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Eviction blockade rallies around retired Springfield firefighter and Upper Hill neigborhood resident Alex Richardson; eviction delayed by no-show locksmith

SPRINGFIELD — The eviction of a retired firefighter from his Upper Hill neighborhood home, set to occur Monday morning and protested by scores of community activists, was forestalled when a locksmith needed to bypass the home's locked doors failed to show.

Numerous police officers looked on as cheers erupted from the crowd in front Alexander Richardson’s home at 68-70 Rochelle St. when the activists learned the locksmith was a no-show and that the eviction would not be happening — for now.

“I feel great,” the 61-year-old Richardson said as the crowd of some 60-70 activists, supporters and neighbors celebrated around him with cheers and chants. “It’s a victory, but the battle is not over.”

A number of protestors with Springfield No One Leaves and other organizations were ready risk arrest as they formed an eviction blockade in an effort to prevent Richardson’s eviction by Wells Fargo.

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1. That is how people stopped farm evictions in the 1930's.

History does not record how many farms were foreclosed due to bank skulduggery back then
but it does record that neighbors and supporters rallied to defy foreclosure in the 30's
and again in the 1980's ( remember Farm Aid???)..
Today, we KNOW many home foreclosures were illegal, and that banks have been fined millions of dollars
altho the displaced homeowners have not been compensated.

[font style=color:#FF0000;]there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?[/font]