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Occupy Buffalo rallies against IDA’s

YNN, by Antoinette Bryant, 11/10/2011. Members of Occupy Buffalo continue to stand in solidarity, this time calling for economic development reform. Thursday, the group along with community and labor activists took its movement to Sheridan Drive to demand that corporate subsidies deliver good jobs, not giveaways. Protesters rallied in front of Northtown Lexus in Amherst to draw attention to the Amherst Industrial Development Agency's use of public dollars on projects that they say lacks broader community benefits.


“Good Jobs Not Giveaways” To Protest Downtown Brooklyn’s Chase Bank

New York Times, By Roxanna Asgarian, November 9, 2011. Activists, community members and Occupy Wall Streeters will be protesting at Chase Bank in Downtown Brooklyn tomorrow at 2 p.m., calling on the bank to bring more jobs to the city or give back the city subsidies they were given to move into the area. The Alliance for a Greater New York, who is organizing the protest, believes city subsidies should be saved for companies who bring jobs and other benefits to the communities they’re a part of.


WBAI CityWatch

WBAI Radio, WBAI, November 5, 2011. WBAI’s weekly public affairs program interviews Matt Ryan of ALIGN about poverty in New York City and our most recent report. Interview begins at 1:25 (one minute, twenty-five seconds).



‘Dear Jamie Dimon’: O.W.S. writes to bankers

CNN Money, By James O'Toole, October 28, 2011. After railing against Wall Street greed for weeks from their encampment at Zuccotti Park in New York, a group went on the move Friday, dropping off thousands of letters addressed to Wall Street executives.


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