CNN Money is reporting that Bank of America is reconsidering its controversial decision to impose $5 debit card fees. The national bank’s decision to levy a new fee was met with outrage from all over the country.
Occupy Jacksonville met for the third week in a row on Saturday, this time to discuss their specific demands. Though the number of protestors dwindled considerably since the group’s first meeting, their proposals have gained strength — and specificity.
Protesters marching as an extension of Occupy Wall Street met for the second time in Jacksonville’s Hemming Plaza on Saturday —this time, with a more specific agenda and more specific targets.
Police waded through a crowd chanting “Shame! Shame!” and “The banks got a bailout! The people got sold out!” to evict three families from a low-income apartment complex in Miami’s Liberty City yesterday. Miami police also arrested a housing activist and a tenant for interfering with the evictions.
The buildings were sold in foreclosure last year, and the confrontation has become the latest battle by activists attempting to keep poor people in their homes during an unprecedented housing and economic crisis that has left Miami with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country.
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