Four of the seven people arrested in front of US Bank plaza last fall are going to court next week, for challenging the banks practices of foreclosing on people and forcing them into homelessness. We recently learned that the prosecutor has added three new charges to each of us! We need people to pack the court room and show their support, and to say that standing up to the banks isn’t criminal, taking people’s homes IS!

Reg Chapman and I were talking in the newsroom last night about how the coverage of the protest itself probably should stop fairly soon. Frankly, the fact that crowds haven’t really mushroomed tells us something about Minnesotans. Perhaps we’re not really the protesting type; perhaps this crowd of protestors doesn’t resonate with the middle class working people who are upset about Wall Street, mortgages, bank fees, etc; perhaps it’s getting cold.

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I’m pretty sure these reporters don’t really get to decide what they cover vs. not, and this is only their expression of opinion (in an appropriate forum, a blog post) but it is somewhat concerning that full time staff reporters on a major networks’s local affiliate (CBS) is not taking Occupy Minnesota seriously.

What do the Occupy Minnesota organizers have to say about this, I wonder?