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Occupy Wall Street roundup: Day 46 (Daily Kos)

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Tomorrow, Occupy Oakland has called for a general strike in the city;
sympathetic actions will also take place in cities around the country. There
seems no way to know how big the action will be, but given that there appears
to be support by at least some unions, by the school district, and even by the
city itself? We'll see what happens.

Today in Occupy-related news:

* The big question: is it working?

> As David Dayen notes, the anger over the proposed fees, combined with the
protests, have led to several companion movements, such as National Bank
Transfer day. Dayen speculates that the protests “revitalized a citizen’s
movement to take money out of the large Wall Street banks and to put it into
community banks or credit unions.”

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> In terms of today’s news, I just got off the phone with a senior banking
official familiar with the discussions about Bank of America’s decision. This
official said there was no direct correlation between the protests and the
decision, and argued that the move by other banks to back off the fees left
BoA no choice. But the official acknowledged that the atmosphere ...

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