Demonstrators Disrupt Wells Fargo Meeting in Utah: A dozen people protesting Wells Fargo’s mortgage policies disrupted a shareholders’ meeting Tuesday, and one of them tried to make a citizen’s arrest of CEO John Stumpf.
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Shareholder season is upon us, marking the beginning of another round of corporate America’s dog-and-pony shows held to placate their cronies and pat each other on the back for another profitable year. As corporations continue

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Last year, US Bank held its annual shareholders meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of its corporate headquarters. The event was dominated by shareholders and proxies who are members of Minnesotans for a Fair Economy…, an

Tomorrow Walmart is hosting their giant annual meeting in Arkansas to plot the next moves for the world’s biggest retailer.
Chances are high Walmart will pledge higher salaries for top executives, keep paying their associates incredibly low wages, and set…

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As Walmart prepares for its shareholder meeting next Friday, June 1, several members of the Walmart 1 Percent were confronted this week by Walmart workers and their allies. Members of the Organization United for Respect at

More than 100 protesters rallied outside Amazon.com’s annual meeting Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum, where the company told shareholders it planned to improve warehouse conditions and drop its membership in a conservative public-policy organization.
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Seattle Times

Tomorrow (Thursday) — there’s going to be a awesome protest… at Sallie Mae’s annual shareholder meeting in Newark, Deleware. Buses will be rolling in with fed up students from DC to Philly, from Florida to New Jersey.
For those of

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By Elizabeth ParisianPolicy Analyst, Stand Up! Chicago
Think of powerful, multi-billion dollar corporations, and many come readily to mind. Wal-Mart. General Electric. Exxon Mobil. Bank of America. McDonald’s. Apple. We recognize

We’re halfway through the 99% Spring! Let’s discuss how far we’ve come, where we’re at, and where we go from here.
Join us at 3pm EST for one-hour online chat on Facebook!
We want to use this chat as a…

WellPoint is the nation’s second largest health care provider and largest Blue Cross/Blue Shield organization, providing health coverage to one in nine Americans. WellPoint operates in 14 states.
WellPoint executives have been at the forefront of seeking to overturn the…

We’re just about halfway through the Spring Shareholder season and in cities across the US and the world, the 99% has mic-checked, shut down and generally undermined dozens of corporate shareholder meetings.  Our voices are being heard and our message…

On April 24th, more than 150 stockholders and legal proxies were denied access to the Wells  Fargo Shareholder meeting in San Francisco.
The 99% stands in opposition to this denial of democracy and the exclusion of legal shareholders from annual…

As thousands took to the streets of Charlotte on Wednesday, activists helped unhappy Bank of America customers online.  Check out a some of the great advice they gave out here….
 

Listen to this recording of National People’s Action Director George Goehl addressing the Bank of America shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC yesterday:

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An incredible day for making the voice of the 99% heard in the mainstream media!  We’ve gotten covered by news outlets across the nation.  Lots of great coverage still coming in — stay tuned for more updates from Charlotte!
Coverage…

Bank of America: From “Built to Last” to “Built to Loot”
Bank of America, founded in 1904, had a long, proud history of providing fair and affordable banking services to working families. But in the 1980s, that began to shift.
The…

It’s early on a typical Wednesday morning in Charlotte, but it‘s definitely not business as usual — this really is an extraordinary event!  Thousands of people hurt by foreclosure, dirty coal, and bankrupted communities have converged on Bank of America’s…

WELLS FARGO SHAREHOLDERS PLAN FORMAL COMPLAINT & DAY OF ACTION TO PROTEST DENIED ACCESS AT ANNUAL MEETING
Wells Fargo denied legal right of access to their annual shareholder meeting on April 24th in unprecedented move to ignore criticism. Shareholders call…

SUCCESS! – Check out the screengrabs of a full day of serving truth to Bank of America customers on Twitter!  …
We have an idea for an experiment — and would love your help.
Everyday, dozens of people complain about

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Last Monday, Charlotte, North Carolina’s city manager declared Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting taking place this Wednesday an “extraordinary event.”
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