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Protesters Take Aim At Wells Fargo's Annual Shareholder Meeting

Becky Tarbotton, an executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, called Wells Fargo "one of the worst corporate offenders" when it comes to tax payments and other issues. "The Occupy movements has opened a real space to talk about inequality and corporate power in this country. We are channeling that energy into focused pressure" at annual meetings, she said during a conference call with reporters on Monday.

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Protesters Take Aim At Wells Fargo's Annual Shareholder Meeting
Fox Business
Monday, April 23, 2012

Ninety-Nine Percent Power: Activists Ready To Crash Wells Fargo, General Electric Shareholder Meetings

Tomorrow, organizers are hitting Wells Fargo's shareholder meeting. Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, said they expect 2,000 demonstrators including 100 clergy. They plan on circling the building where the meeting is set to take place, "non-violent blockades," sit-ins inside the building, as well as placing activists inside the shareholder meeting.

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Ninety-Nine Percent Power: Activists Ready To Crash Wells Fargo, General Electric Shareholder Meetings
Huffington Post
Monday, April 23, 2012

Occupy movement turning to shareholder meetings

Looking to build on the Occupy Wall Street movement, activists say they're turning to corporate shareholder meetings this spring to vent their anger over economic disparity in the United States and to promote an assortment of other causes.

A group called 99% Power -- a reference to those not among the top 1 percent of earners -- says it plans actions at 36 shareholder meetings, with the first big push coming at Tuesday's Wells Fargo & Co gathering in San Francisco.

Occupy movement turning to shareholder meetings
Reuters
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Bank vs. America Showdown: Massive Protests at BofA Shareholder's Meeting

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Media Advisory for May 8 and 9, 2012

Daring Action at Bank of America Stadium Leads to Five Arrests

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

HI-RES PHOTOS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainforestactionnetwork/sets/72157629583424804/

Rainforest Action Network Renames Bank of America Stadium – “Bank of Coal”

Rainforest Action Network Renames Bank of America Stadium – “Bank of Coal”

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Five Advocates Unfurl 70-Foot Banner Atop Bank Branded Stadium

HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON FLICKR: ran.org/bofaphotos

US Banks Risk Public Health and Climate by Financing Coal

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

RAN and Sierra Club Detail the “Filthy Five” Banks in third annual “Coal Finance Report Card”

Over 1000 to Protest Bank of America at Shareholder Meeting

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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Kerul Dyer, 415.866.0005

San Francisco—A thousand-plus people representing the diversity of the 99 percent will converge in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 9 to protest Bank of America policies that are bankrupting our economy and destroying our environment at the company’s annual shareholder meeting.  Rainforest Action Network, the New Bottom Line, the Pushback Network and a growing number of other national organizations will coordinate with local grassroots efforts for the non-violent mass mobilization.

Brazil Issues Criminal Charges Against Chevron

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Today Rainforest Action Network activists traveled to Chevron’s headquarters in San Ramon to issue an arrest warrant for Chevron CEO John Watson for international environmental and human rights crimes. The action came the day that Brazilian prosecutors filed criminal charges against Chevron executives after the company’s drilling operations caused an offshore oil spill that dumped thousands of gallons of oil into a fragile marine ecosystem.

Chicago Coal Plant Closures Point to Energy Source as Risky Investment

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO— Today, Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of Edison International, announced the retirement of the Fisk and Crawford coal plants, two of the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the country. Agreements signed by Midwest Generation, Chicago’s Clean Power Coalition and the City of Chicago indicate that Fisk will shut down in 2012 and the Crawford coal plant in Little Village will shut down by 2014.  The announcement marks a historic victory after a decade-long grassroots campaign designed to protect public health and the environment from the impacts of burning coal.

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