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4 Key Questions About the Future of Occupy Wall Street

Justin Elliott, Salon. October 27, 2011.

After a little more than a month of explosive growth, there’s a sense that Occupy Wall Street is at a crossroads.

10 Reasons Bank of America Is the Most Hated Bank in America

Nomi Prins, TruthOut.org. October 27, 2011.

Here are ten reasons to take your money out of Bank of America - and park it at a credit union or community bank near you.

Why the 99% Can't Be Co-opted

Mark Engler, Dissent Magazine. October 21, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street draws strength from its reach.

Eliot Spitzer: Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won

Eliot Spitzer, Slate. October 15, 2011.

OWS brought the issues of equity, fairness, justice, income distribution, and accountability for the economic cataclysm front and center.

Occupy Wall Street's Remarkable Success

Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books. October 13, 2011.

OWS expresses the grievances and concerns of what must be the majority of Americans. And everyone is listening and watching.

America Returns to Our Proud History of Hating -- and Fighting -- Wall Street

Steve Fraser, TomDispatch.com. October 13, 2011.

Only weeks ago, an eerie unprotesting silence still blanketed the country. That's all over now.

5 Reasons the Right Is Terrified of Occupy Wall St.

Robert Creamer, Huffington Post. October 12, 2011.

The Occupy Wall Street Movement is so frightening to the Right because it may directly affect voter behavior in the upcoming election.

Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy Wall Street

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. October 10, 2011.

The occupation of Wall Street has formed an alternative community that defies the profit-driven hierarchical structures of corporate capitalism.

Occupy Wall Street: 'We're Mad As Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore'

David Morris, On the Commons. October 6, 2011.

The CEOs of Wall Street firms disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions. Why are protestors the ones who are getting arrested?

No Excuses -- Join the Occupy Wall St. Movement or Stand on the Wrong Side of History

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. September 30, 2011.

Either you obstruct the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street or become the passive enabler.

11 Things You Can Do to Help the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement

Chaz Valenza, OpEdNews.com. September 20, 2011.

The people protesting on Wall Street are fighting for the unemployed, the uninsured, and those totally insecure in the face of ever increasing financial inequities.

10 Reasons We'd Be Better off Without Ben Bernanke

Nomi Prins, AlterNet. December 1, 2010.

The Federal Reserve chief has recklessly bailed out our financial system -- we shouldn't wait the 10 years before his term expires to toss him overboard.

Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble, and There May Be Financial Disaster on the Horizon

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 11, 2010.

Its stock value has dropped 40 percent since April, and the bank is mum on what losses it's hiding on its $2.3 trillion balance sheet.

Elizabeth Warren: Big Banks Must Stop Trying to Stall Reforms to the Financial System

Lynn Parramore, NewDeal 2.0. July 14, 2010.

An interview with finance watchdog Warren, who attacks the pernicious influence of bank lobbies, and worries about the debt-fueled threat to America’s middle class.

Why Won't Obama Draw a Line in the Sand and Take on the Wall Street Wrecking Crew?

Frank Rich, The New York Times. October 20, 2009.

We know Obama has good values, but we don't know if he has convictions.

Our Economy Is Going to Keep Tanking Until We Stop Shoveling Billions to Rich People

Pam Martens, CounterPunch. June 2, 2009.

There's a cycle going on here: if you don't put money in consumers' hands, you get repetitive cycles of layoffs and growing unemployment.

Obama's Economic Plan Is Not Going to Save Us

William Greider, The Nation. January 22, 2009.

Dire events are going to push Obama toward economic solutions far more fundamental than those he had intended.

Obama's Team Signals It's Taking the Taxpayer Ripoff Route to Saving Our Financial System

Paul Krugman, The New York Times. January 20, 2009.

Obama's team is talking a whole new economic voodoo: the belief that by performing elaborate financial rituals we can keep dead banks walking.

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

Michael Lewis, David Einhorn, The New York Times. January 6, 2009.

American capitalism is in a state of pure madness -- here's how we can bring the financial system to a saner place.