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The Mortgage Crisis and 'Occupy Our Home'
The "Occupy" movement is trying to help evicted families get back into their foreclosed homes. We hear about civil disobedience, property rights and economic inequality.
By Warren Olney • • 53m ListenThe "Occupy" movement was criticized for lacking specific goals. Now protesters against America's banks are trying to help evicted families get back into their foreclosed homes. We hear about civil disobedience and property rights, as concerns about economic inequality move to the suburbs of Southern California. Also, we talk with State Attorney General Kamala Harris about her withdrawal from the national settlement with big banks to team up with her counterpart in Nevada to investigate mortgage fraud. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, Internet piracy and Hollywood versus Silicon Valley.
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2 storiesThe Mortgage Crisis and 'Occupy Our Home'
Attorney General Kamala Harris has pulled out of a state and federal settlement with big banks, calling it "insufficient." Now she's joined forces with Nevada's Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and they represent two of the states most heavily battered by problematic home mortgages.
Read the story27 minInternet Piracy: Will SOPA Change the Web as We Know It?
There's a major battle on Capitol Hill involving big money with Republicans and Democrats on both sides of the issue. It's all about Internet sites that profit from stolen movies and music. Movie studios and music producers say copyright theft is costing them $58 billion a year.
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