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Apr.24.2012 Stockholder and Grandmother Betty Calls Out Wells Fargo Wells Fargo held their annual shareholders meeting today in San Francisco. Betty, a stock holder and grandmother who lives in Portland, took a vacation day from work to travel down for this meeting. Her goal: to communicate with John Stumpf, Chairman of Wells Fargo, to let him...	Nov.29.2011 The Time Has Come When Silence Is Betrayal This morning, I opened my favorite on line newsletter Dana Delivered. In this issue there was an article about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Time to Break Silence” speech. This brilliant speech was delivered in 1967 in direct response to the inequities of war, in this case the Vietnam War and...
Nov.21.2011 #occupyoakland 11.18.11 We're Gonna Stay Right Here It is a cold and rainy Friday night - four days after police cleared the Occupy Oakland camp for the second time. A peaceful rally marked the afternoon following the Monday eviction, followed by a march to Oakland’s downtown plaza for a General Assembly. In the following days, higher...	Nov.16.2011 Myopia, Poverty, Foreclosure Part 2: The Final Curtain Let me pick up where I left off… Now, when there are two paychecks in a household a family unit might develop an erroneously inflated sense of economic worth. Suddenly the family finds that they are paying outrageous prices for small, often unnecessary things. The traffic suddenly decides to...
Oct.11.2011 Occupy - The Musical! This past week, we got to see the media's sweeping version of Occupy, which basically read like a vignette out of the movie, "Hair." You can already imagine the orchestra warming up to present the overture for "Occupy: The Musical!" on Broadway. This is the picture that was painted for us:...