Monthly Archives: June 2012

$29.5 Billion in Overdraft Fees? How the Big Banks Are Still Screwing Us

AlterNet | June 19, 2012

Millions of Americans continue to be screwed by the banks they helped bail out just a few short years ago. It just isn’t right.

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Can We Curb Obscene Pay? 5 Examples of Shareholder Activism

AlterNet | June 13, 2012

Shareholder-activists are taking some of the Occupy movement’s messages off the streets and into the corporate spaces where shareholder meetings take place.

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How Urban Outfitters Peddles Ironic Conservatism, Hipster Racism and Other Terrible Values

AlterNet/Salon | June 11, 2012

Every company uses consumers to sell products, but Urban Outfitters’ way of doing so feels especially slimy.

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