Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction Favorite 

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Date: 

Apr 17 2012

Location: 

Bronx NY

Demonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough.

They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the lyrics, "Y'all are speculating off people's pain. With all due respect, you should be ashamed."

Court officers arrested 14 demonstrators and issued summonses for disorderly conduct.

Four years after the housing market collapsed, the Bronx suffers from the highest foreclosure rate and the most evictions of any borough. In fact, city marshals enforced 10,140 evictions in the Bronx last year, a 17% increase over 2010.

External sources: 

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/14-singing-protestors-arrested-disrup…
Posted by crux on Oct 24 2019

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Effectiveness

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
A moratorium on foreclosures.
This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
To make urban housing affordable.

Notes

Protestors were arrested and a few press pieces were published.