Members of the Occupy Delaware movement protest the sheriff’s sale at the City/County building in Wilmington on Tuesday

As the monthly New Castle County Sheriff sale was getting underway, members of Occupy Delaware stood up on cue to send their message loud and clear.

“We demand a halt to fore closures, now!,” the group shouted. “Stop foreclosures! People, not profits!”
Their signs simply said “STOP.”

Bernard August of Occupy Delaware led the call-and-response in the audience at City Council chambers in Wilmington.

“People are losing their houses because certain banks and their lawyers are not renegotiating their mortgages down,” August said after the demonstration. “A lot of these people who are probably losing their houses probably could afford to stay in them. We feel that people should not be thrown out on the street, that they have not been given every opportunity to refinance their houses.”

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