The rally Monday afternoon by Occupy Wall Street Nevada County was modest but passionate. A couple of dozen people ((UPDATE: The Union article Tuesday claims “more than three dozen local Occupy Wall Street demonstrators …”)) carried signs protesting foreclosures in the county and nationwide. The rally was timed to correspond to Monday’s foreclosure auction on the steps of the Nevada County Courthouse.

Local Methodist minister Sharon Delgado introduced the event, followed by a couple of foreclosure victims telling their sad stories.

Other speakers invited ongoing participation in a local effort to support foreclosure victims.

To find out about the local Foreclosure Working Group and about other local OWS working groups, see http://ga.occupywallstreetnc.org.

For more information about the nationwide effort, see http://occupyourhomes.org/.

In the end, the auction proceeded amidst chanting in the background, as the following brief video shows:

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