Occupy Our Homes kicks off in at least 25 cities: NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, LA, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Petaluma, Sacramento, Paradise, Contra Costa, Lake Worth, Atlanta, Fayetteville, Dekalb, Chicago, Bloomington, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Southgate, St. Louis, Portland and Seattle. In other news, Occupy Santa Cruz and UC Santa Cruz students are in their 4th day of occupying an abandoned Welles Fargo building. OccupyDC is host to a National General Assembly as authorities block off the Washington Monument.