The Occupy movements are moving on to a new cause–saving foreclosed homes. Not just for the owners, mind you, but also for themselves to basically squat in. Public spaces such as parks have driven out the crowds, so they have taken to boarded up and condemned properties and claiming them as their own.

However they do also claim to be saving homes for families being foreclosed on. In Atlanta specifically, Occupy protesters held a rally in front of a county courthouse with whistles and sirens intended to disrupt auction proceedings indoors. The auctions were of course to sell the foreclosed homes. The foreclosure protests have also been popping up in New York, Seattle, and in Southern California. The motto? “Foreclose on banks, not people.”

The Atlanta movers have learned through a Newsday article that Occupy protesters feel they are saving homes for the needy and that their acts are a sort of “Christmas gift to the people.”