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Year of the Fees: The Stupidest Fees of 2011

By Tiana L Since the implementation of news consumer protection law limiting banks ability to trick consumers and jack up rates and fees overnight, the big banks and their high power lobbyists are trying to carve loopholes in the system coming up with new ways to stick it to customers. However, in a tough economic [...]

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Occupy’s message resonates in state, poll finds

Nearly half of registered voters in California say they personally identify with the Occupy movement and an even larger number said they agreed with the reason behind the protest, according to a Field Poll released today. The poll found that among registered voters in the state, 46 percent said they identify with the movement while [...]

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Occupy Wall Street: Live

The 99 percent Occupy Protest Shift into high gear on November 17. Here’s a livestream of Occupy Wall Street protest, which has planned a big day of action for today.

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Occupy Explosion and Confrontation

By Easton L Lawrence November 17th began as a national call to action day with Occupy protest schedule in every-major city. However, as the protest shift in to high gear, local law enforcement clash with the 99% protester in what is shaping up to be a bloody and brutal day. Some 300 protesters have been arrested, some peacefully [...]

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Is Jay-Z Trying to Cash in on Occupy Wall Street movement?

By Tiana L On all account Jay-Z is a very wealthy young man, as a matter of fact; Forbes Magazine has him listed as one of the individuals on the horizon gunning to be hip hops first billionaire. Despite his vast wealth, a savvy business man, like Jay-Z, will never let a good money making [...]

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Occupy Protesters Run Michele Bachmann Offstage

The Occupy Protesters found Michele Bachmann, who was delivering a big foreign policy speech to god knows who.  Bachmann was perhaps 10 minutes into a lightweight foreign policy speech in South Carolina on Thursday when she was drowned out by the shouting of protesters. They interrupted her and started to do their chant-repeaty schtick: Approximately 30 people [...]

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The Wealth Gap is brutal on Younger Americans

By Easton L Lawrence No wonder our streets are fill with occupy protesters carrying signs which read, need good jobs or occupy everywhere. A new report indicates the wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record in history. Making matters worse, the prolonged economic downturn has evaporated job opportunities [...]

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Occupy L.A. protesters march to mark Bank Transfer Day

Hundreds of protesters vented their frustration with Wall Street Saturday in a march through downtown L.A.’s financial district that at one point erupted into a pushing and shouting match with a counter-protester. It was part of Bank Transfer Day, a national effort to get people to move their money from large corporate banks into smaller [...]

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Tea Party Backer Hurls Epithet At Elizabeth Warren

BROCKTON, Mass. — Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidate. The man, who said he’d been unemployed since February 2010, objected to Warren’s expressed affiliation with the frustrations of Occupy Wall Street, and argued that [...]

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Occupy Movement Oakland epicenter

By LISA LEFF Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to [...]

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