Protesters Say They'll Block Foreclosure

Members of Occupy Napa say they'll do "what it takes" to stop the scheduled foreclosure sale of a local woman's home this afternoon.

Updated 2:45 p.m.: See Woman's Foreclosure Forestalled. Earlier: Members of the Occupy Napa group are rallying around a local woman they call "Mama Josie," who expects to lose her home in a foreclosure sale this afternoon. Napa community activist and volunteer Josie Jenkins says her house will be sold at auction on the steps of the old Napa courthouse on Brown Street at 1:30 p.m. "I asked for a postponement but Bank of America has refused," Jenkins wrote in an email to Patch last night. "I recently applied again for assistance from the Making Home Affordable federal program and the State program called Keep Your Home California since I have just gotten a job with Napa County. Together with that assistance I should be able to pay my …

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