top
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Sat Nov 24 2012
Wells Fargo Turned into Homeless Shelter and Soup Kitchen
Action at Wells Fargo Home Loan Bank Branch Draws Attention to Bank Foreclosures
For a few hours on November 17th in San Francisco, a Wells Fargo Home loan bank branch was turned into a homeless shelter and soup kitchen to highlight the harm caused by the bank to numerous communities across the U.S. Food and bread were donated by Arizmendi and Ryan and the Space Transformers. The action was "Brought to you by Occupy Bernal, ACCE-SF, Occupy Direct Action Workgroup, Occupy Action Council of SF, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Workgroup, Community Not Commodity, Occupy Noe, San Francisco Tenants Union, Senior and Disability Action, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Communities United in Defense of Olmsted." SFPD initially set up at the Chase bank around the corner, but they were in the wrong location, so it took them a while to figure out what was going on. Eventually the police simply monitored the scene and found no reason to remove the humanitarian event.

photo Photos
2025-08-20 Author Envisions Culture Where Police and Prisons are Replaced with Healing Systems Police State & Prisons | Racial Justice | Media Activism & Independent Media | California | U.S.2025-08-20 Israel Assassinates Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza City Airstrike Racial Justice | Anti-War | Labor & Workers | Media Activism & Independent Media | San Francisco | California | Palestine2025-08-19 Social Security Workers Warn DOGE Layoffs Have Diminished Services and Benefits Health, Housing & Public Services | Labor & Workers | San Francisco | U.S. | Government & Elections2025-08-15 Sable Attempting to Restart Corroded Pipeline that Caused Refugio Oil Spill Environment & Forest Defense | Central Valley | California | Government & Elections2025-08-08 Noise Demonstrations Target BCG for Role in Deadly "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" Front Page | Racial Justice | Health, Housing & Public Services | Anti-War | San Francisco | U.S. | International | Palestine2025-07-31 Monarch Population Especially Vulnerable to Mass Deaths from Pesticides During Winter Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Animal Liberation | Santa Cruz Indymedia2025-07-29 Bay Area Gray Whale Deaths at Highest Level Since 2000 Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | East Bay | California | U.S. | Animal Liberation2025-07-28 Senator Alex Padilla Called Out for Supporting Bills That Fund Genocide Front Page | Racial Justice | Health, Housing & Public Services | Anti-War | San Francisco | California | U.S. | International | Government & Elections | Palestine2025-07-25 Musk-Owned Company Subjects Primates and Pigs to Deadly Brain Chip Implants East Bay | Animal Liberation2025-07-25 Wells Fargo Funds Toxic Pipelines, Genocide, and Deportation Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Racial Justice | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | San Francisco | U.S. | International | Palestine | Immigrant Rights2025-07-24 Stakeholder Group Takes Action After Exposure to Fire's Massive Pollution Cloud Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Health, Housing & Public Services | Government & Elections | Santa Cruz Indymedia
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$250.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network