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If Occupy Miami is the Present, Is there an Occupy Future?

Occupy Miami Raid in Overton

New Orleans     It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA.  It’s not easy.  It’s an eyesore and a headache.

From city to city where Occupy still holds some ground (speaking in a spatial, rather than a political sense) they continue to be rooted out [...]

Accelerate Bank Transfers and Create Citizen Wealth and Reinvestment

New Orleans Credit union and community banks report the number of new accounts opening in October rose to by 13 times the normal rate of increase with over 650,000 new accounts since September 29th when Bank of America announced its (now rescinded) larcenous run on their own customer’s  bank accounts through debit card fees.   [...]

Bringing Down Bank of America: Social Media or Social Movement?

New Orleans The queue to “count coup” on Bank of America and its decision to step back from stealing debit card fees from its customers is almost unseemly.  We expect it from politicians, and props to Senator Durbin, VP Joe Biden, and the rest of the DC gang for the pile-on, which in fact [...]

Bank of America’s Countrywide Ghoul Strikes Again

New Orleans Reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times are raising the specter of Bank of America filing for bankruptcy for its Countrywide mortgage unit detonating the “nuclear” option to save the parent company and run from the toxic mortgage load bought in 2008.  I wonder if this doesn’t finally give another [...]

Truth in Banking for Welfare Queens and Wannabes

New Orleans When there is actual truth told about banks and bankers that may not mean anything will change, but at least it’s a good way to start the day.  On the way to battle the Sioux warriors used to say, “this is a good day to die!”  In the battle for banking accountability, this [...]

Banks Silently Step up on Remittances

Atlanta On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) we have had difficulty getting any response from the big banks except in the most cursory terms.  Wells Fargo did finally reply and told us they were doing great within a small footprint of countries.  Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase were stone silent.  Not surprisingly [...]