businessinsider.com - 3/22/2009
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Ed note: Our embed Rhys Southan is following
today's AIG protest from the inside . His first...
dispatch can be found here . Several hours after the protest was set to begin, it's looking like today's much-hyped protest against AIG (AIG) and its execs ...
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Protest Bust
truthdig.com - 3/23/2009
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The methods used to attain what we want,
we are told by reality television programs, business schools...
and self-help gurus, are irrelevant. Success, always defined in terms of money and power, is its own justification. Our moral collapse is as ...
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America Is In Need of a Moral Bailout
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Protests Across Country Focus on Workers' Strife, Citizen Journalists Report
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Reporting by Natasha Chen, Daniel Howes, Karen Kilpo, Pamela Mays McDonald, Linda R. Monk, Dorothy Noble, Elizabeth Ross, Jim Stevenson, Betty Teng, and Gerald Trumbule
Protesters took to the streets on Thursday to express their outrage over the bonuses being dolled out by firms that received billions in taxpayer dollars. The nationwide demonstrations, organized by groups including Service Employees International Union, MoveOn.org and ACORN, featured events in 32 states and over 100 cities.
Huffington Post readers from across the country shared ground-level reports from 11 cities. Gatherings ranged from only a couple protesters to ...
Protests Across Country Focus on Workers' Strife, Citizen Journalists Report
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Reporting by Natasha Chen, Daniel Howes, Karen Kilpo, Pamela Mays McDonald, Linda R. Monk, Dorothy Noble, Elizabeth Ross, Jim Stevenson, Betty Teng, and Gerald Trumbule
Protesters took to the streets on Thursday to express their outrage over the bonuses being dolled out by firms that received billions in taxpayer dollars. The nationwide demonstrations, organized by groups including Service Employees International Union, MoveOn.org and ACORN, featured events in 32 states and over 100 cities.
Huffington Post readers from across the country shared ground-level reports from 11 cities. Gatherings ranged from only a couple protesters to ...
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