From the Washington Post:
"I don't even know who these people are. I've never seen them before," Joyner said recently as he stood outside his home on Varnum Street. "They beat bongos. They play guitar. They stay up all night. And they [have sex] on the porch."Not at all like the Tea Party. As for so-called "land liberation," that is of course illegal.
More than three dozen protesters have lived in the fraying yellow "Occuhouse" in recent months, rigging illegal electrical lines and infuriating neighbors. Supporters say the occupiers think they're engaged in "land liberation" — a growing movement across the country in which activists enter bank-owned properties, fix them up and move homeless families in.
Because the Petworth house is not owned by a bank or in foreclosure, neighbors think the protesters are just squatters, not activists with a grand political purpose.
Neighbors along Varnum — new, younger residents and African American families who have lived there for decades — say they have called police multiple times in the past few months. After inquiries by The Post, police spokesman Gwendolyn Crump said that officers went to the house Wednesday evening to look into the matter but have made no arrests.
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