PBS NewsHour Video: Bank of America to Pay $335M to Settle Countrywide Case of Alleged Racial Bias

It pains me no end that I still carry debt on a Bank of America credit card. I hate this company!

Read more at The New York Times.

[Video] Boots Riley Of The Coup Speaks About The Planned December 12th Occupy West Coast Port Shut Down

Real talk! Pay attention…..

For more on the West Coast Port Shut Down: website | twitter | facebook

[via PDS]

“I think this is what the 99% are talking about….”

As quoted from the facebook page where I swiped this (thanks, Frank!) So Paul Allen, Ex-Mortgage CEO, get sentenced to three years in prison for a $3 billion fraud, but Roy Brown, a remorseful homeless man who returned the $100 he robbed from a Capital One bank branch in Shreveport, Louisiana get sentenced to 15 years??! Keep marching Occupy Wall Street protesters and keep protesting….

In case you’re skeptical, here are the original source articles: Huffington Post | Digital Journal

Amazing Photos from Occupy Wall Street Protests Around the World!

Occupy Michigan:


Occupy London:


Occupy Madrid:


Occupy Belgium:


Occupy Rome:


Occupy Santa Rosa:

Like I said when I first posted on the #OWS movement, I was sleeping. But no more, this is real and like Jason Linkins argues in an excellent Huffington Post Op-Ed, Occupy Wall Street is starting to alter the media narrative about the economy.

Hit the jump for more amazing images from this 3G (growing, global, grassroots) movement.

[most images via David Harris-Gershon]

(more…)

[Infographic] The Difference Between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements

Wow! I think that’s pretty much says it all….

Actually, I’ma let Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing have the last word on this post:

@xenijardin: “#OWS Fact: More people have now been arrested for protesting financial crimes than # of bankers arrested for those crimes.”

Marinate on that for a while….

UPDATE: Wall St. Protest Isn’t Like Ours, Tea Party Says. [NY Times]