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If game developers are going to be able to deliver the products that will "speak" to their core market, it behooves them to add more women to their employee ranks.
The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices.
To shout "You put billions into C02 emitting industries!" in a bank lobby -- oh the echo comes back as the Devil's bad gas. Come with us behind the lines. Nothing -- nothing is scarier than a big bank lobby. Revolujah!
Veterans have served our country at considerable sacrifice. We work hard and play by the rules. But, as it turns out, big corporations aren't playing by the same rules, and our communities are paying for it.
Like a fat kid and chocolate cake, some things are just inseparable. And CEO Jaime Dimon of JPMorgan Chase has proven that parable with his near insatiable appetite in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
It doesn't appear that 99% Spring, despite trying to ready tens of thousands of people for escalating civil disobedience, resulted in very disruptive actions in Charlotte. On the plus side, there's more than a month of spring opportunities left.
The eviction was so shocking that Lennon-Griffin's 72-year-old neighbor ran out of her own home in her pajamas shouting, "This is not America when we are removing people from their homes!" until she was arrested along with six others.
At this moment, in our land, it is time for the true champions of the 99 percent to launch the largest voter registration, mobilization and turnout campaign in the history of freedom.
At the Bank of America shareholder meeting, bank executives continued to enjoy their full constitutional protections despite working for an institution with the worst rap sheet in town. The rest of us were guilty until proven innocent.
This week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders' meeting. Just as important as the mass action are the homeowners across North Carolina who are building a grassroots resistance network to keep the pressure on the banks.
As part of a $25 billion settlement agreement between the government and five major banks for fraudulent foreclosures, Bank of America agreed to $11 billion in mortgage principal reductions.
In a pilot program, Bank of America will rent homes back to the homeowners who defaulted on their mortgage.
I've learned a lot in my 45 years. I've learned from hustling in the streets of Boston, from more than two decades in the rap game, from being a landlord, a retail store owner, and the father of six daughters. But some of the most important things I know, I learned from Bank of America.
We believe protest at the Bank of America meeting this year is not just normal -- it's the only response that makes sense. We don't want to protest Bank of America's shareholder meeting, but we have to, to protect our country from more unchecked corporate greed and abuse.
Activists in North Carolina tagged Apple's logo on the coal trains today, calling out the tech company's increasingly coal-fired needs at it expanding Maiden, NC, datacenter.
The goal: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.
