{"id":27440,"date":"2011-11-11T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T00:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27440"},"modified":"2012-02-03T02:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T06:26:20","slug":"occupy-oakland-fails-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27440","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Oakland fails again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Occupy Oakland has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2011\/11\/10\/2761772\/occupy-oakland-votes-to-open-wells.html\">opened a account<\/a> at Wells Fargo and deposited twenty thousand dollars.  So with the Occupy movement has been has been telling the public to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/680944\/video%3A_24_arrested_at_citibank_for_attempting_to_move_their_money\/#paragraph3\">withdraw their money from the banks<\/a> has opened a account in a bank that has been labeled as part of the one percent. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The general assembly voted 162-8 to place the money with San Francisco-based Wells Fargo. The assembly minutes indicate that placement with Wells Fargo, which the group has referred to as a &#8220;bankster,&#8221; might be only temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Occupy Oakland intends to eventually place the funds with a credit union. The money, the minutes indicate, was donated by Occupy Wall Street, a protest effort that sprouted in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The cash is to be used to assist in helping individuals who might have been jailed in connection with Occupy Oakland actions, the minutes of the general assembly stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also consider that a branch of Wells Fargo was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/occupy-oakland-wells-fargo-2011-11\">damaged<\/a> during the recent Occupy protests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I understand that people aren&#8217;t comfortable with that, but this is a time-sensitive issue,&#8221; one of the leaders of the general assembly stated, according to the minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Occupy Oakland has pilloried Chase Bank, Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank and other major American financial companies for triggering some of the nation&#8217;s economic ailments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes time to transfer funds to a credit union,&#8221; one of the general assembly members stated, according to the minutes posted on the website. &#8220;We need to help people in jail now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So once again the Occupy movement gets hit in the face by reality. Thanks to UpNorth for the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Occupy Oakland has opened a account at Wells Fargo and deposited twenty thousand &hellip; <a title=\"Occupy Oakland fails again.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27440\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Occupy Oakland fails again.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}