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banks
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How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?
Read more: How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?The Spanish 15M/INDIGNADOS social movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, creatively transforming the prevailing participation and action patterns in its society. Inside the swarm of the movement, we find a key…
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Read more: Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America(Taken from Group’s Event Statement): “The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let’s return the favor…” “While drawing…
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¿Cómo podemos expropiar a las entidades bancarias?
Read more: ¿Cómo podemos expropiar a las entidades bancarias?El albañil anarquista Lucio Urtubia falsificó miles de cheques del First National City Bank, en la segunda mitad de los años setenta, hasta prácticamente llevar el banco a la ruina. Urtubia donó el dinero así generado a diversos movimientos de…
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Bull Fight on Wall Street
Read more: Bull Fight on Wall StreetEarlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.The incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast as well…
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Read more: Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America LobbyA crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. “Bank of America took our homes so we though we’dmove in here!” External sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzMLu4K_2o
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Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman Sachs
Read more: Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman SachsNEW YORK, April 21, 2012 — Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes…
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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines
Read more: Bank of America’s new Automated Truth MachinesA couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies…