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Today is Bank Transfer Day — Time to Move Your Money Out of the Big Banks
Why Bank Transfer Day (Today 11/5/11) Is Only the Beginning of Something Huge The movement to make sure our money serves our own values rather than the bottom line of huge banks will only gain energy as small victories accumulate. … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Corporations, Corruption, Economy, New Ideas, OWS Movement, Wall Street
Tagged AlterNet, Andrew Leonard, Banks, Credit Unions, MoveYourMoneyProject, National Bank Transfer Day, OWS Protests, Reader Supported News, Salon.com, ThinkProgess.org, Too-Big-To-Fail, Van Jones, Zaid Jilani
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement Goes Global
…and I think it’s unstoppable. In just a month it’s gone from a relatively few protestors in Liberty Plaza in New York to protests on every continent but Anarctica. It seems the ‘little people’ Leona Helmsley disdained are finally demanding … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Percent, 2012 Election, 99 Percent, Corporations, Corruption, Economy, Global Politics, Politics, Progressives, Republicans, Wall Street
Tagged AlterNet, AP, Global Protests, Leona Helmsley, OccupyWallSt.org, OWS, Salon.com
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Matt Taibbi: 5 Things Wall Street Protesters Should Demand of the 1%
Matt Taibbi: 5 Things Wall Street Protesters Should Demand of the 1% Lauren Kelley AlterNet, Oct. 13, 2011 Matt Taibbi writes in Rolling Stone that “the [Occupy Wall Street] movement’s basic strategy – to build numbers and stay in the … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Corporations, Corruption, Economy, Wall Street
Tagged AlterNet, Lauren Kelley, Matt Taibbi, OccupyWallSt.org, OWS
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Today’s Quotes: Christopublicans Intent on Taking America to a ‘Very Dark Place’
“I want you to know that the fundamentalist political movement is the beginning of a cultural revolution that will take our nation to a very dark place. You have to understand that this has been methodically planned and is being … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre But Real, Christopublicans, Idiots, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Teabaggers, Wall Street, Wingnuts
Tagged AlterNet, Corporations, Evangelicals, ExxonMobil, Frank Schaeffer, Jason Childs, Jesus, Koch Brothers, News Corp, Oligarchy, Religious Right, Willful Ignorance
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GOP’s War on the Poor Will Backfire…
…says Jeff Madrick of the Roosevelt Institute. This could be true, if the news gets out that the ‘no tax increases’ party is fine with a payroll tax increase for workers earning under $106,000 a year. (If you make $50,000, … Continue reading
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Tagged AlterNet, GOP Backfire, GOP Tax Pledge, Grover Norquist, Jeff Madrick, Keith Olbermann, Lauren Kelley, Payroll Taxes
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