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  • VIDEO: Newsflash, FOX, Wall Street Runs Washington

    FOX News host Stuart Varney had Occupy Wall Street protesters in his sights this Halloween, chiding occupiers and union activists for what he sees as a double standard.

  • Occupy Oakland Shuts Port as Unions Hustle to Keep Up
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Nov 3 2011 - 1:33pm

    Oakland's “day of action” closed shops and halted traffic at the nation’s fifth-largest port. Unions hustled to rally members, building a healthy response for the first occupy action where success required other organizations to mobilize.

  • Anger and Hope on the Streets of Chicago
    Jerry Mead-Lucero
    Oct 11 2011 - 1:03pm

    Thousands are marching Chicago’s streets this week to protest overwhelming corporate power and demand government action to create jobs and reconstruct a fraying social safety net. Dozens of actions are targeting bailed-out banks and corporate tax dodgers.

  • Nurses Join International Push for Bank Trade Tax
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 22 2011 - 5:17pm

    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. National Nurses United led the protest.

  • Payback Time: Activists Shine a Light on Billionaires and Bankers
    Mark Brenner
    May 13 2011 - 11:55am

    Sick of bankers and corporate honchos making out like bandits, 15,000 people marched through Wall Street yesterday. They rallied together against staggering layoffs and budget cuts.

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  • Too Big to Fail? Take it Over.

    Mark Brenner

    Billionaire fraudster Bernie Madoff may be behind bars, but his business model is alive and well. How can we keep high-flying bankers from pulling the same kind of bait-and-switch with taxpayers? Experts — from Nobel Prize-winning economists to Alan Greenspan, the libertarian former Federal Reserve chairman — admit that some kind of nationalization for failing banks is the best way out of this mess. . . .


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