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Occupy marches on Wells Fargo headquarters in S.F.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/24/12 | Vivian Ho, Jill Tucker and Kevin Fagan, Chronicle staff writers

Posted on 04/24/2012 12:40:28 PM PDT by SmithL

SAN FRANCISCO -- Several hundred Occupy protesters massed in front of the downtown San Francisco headquarters of Wells Fargo Bank on Tuesday with the intention of disrupting a shareholders meeting there.

Waving picket signs and broadcasting over speakers on a pickup truck parked in front of the 465 California St. bank building, demonstrators chanted, "Let us in," and, "They got bailed out, we got sold out."

. . .

More than a half-dozen protesters chained themselves to each other and were trying to block the entrances to Liedesdorff Alley, which shareholders have been using to gain access to the bank building. San Francisco police donned riot helmets in preparation for clearing the entrance.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: occupy; professionalprotest; sanfranciscovalues; wellsfargo
Showtime!
1 posted on 04/24/2012 12:40:37 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Sure would be interesting to know who is paying them.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 12:42:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? You're really that dense? Really?)
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To: SmithL

Funny. Liberals protesting liberals.

Every reader here should dump WF as their bank, but not because they’re an “evil, big bank.”


3 posted on 04/24/2012 12:44:20 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: SmithL

What’s “Occupy”? Iranian terrorists?


4 posted on 04/24/2012 12:47:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the 47% to start paying their "fair share" of income taxes.)
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To: SmithL

“Officers, may I suggest using your night sticks?”


5 posted on 04/24/2012 12:47:59 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Through back channels, the Democrat Party. George Soros is funding the Democrat Party through the same back channels.


6 posted on 04/24/2012 12:49:37 PM PDT by sport
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To: SmithL
intention of disrupting

A young and promising French artillery officer had the solution for this kind of thing....

7 posted on 04/24/2012 12:50:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: SmithL
More than a half-dozen protesters chained themselves to each other and were trying to block the entrances to Liedesdorff Alley,

Humph. What did they do? Call in sick from work today?

Yeah. That was a joke. Occupiers with a JOB of their own? Ha ha! (or even looking for one) Ha!

(Thank you. Thank you. I'll be here all week.)

8 posted on 04/24/2012 12:56:45 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: fwdude

I have been an account holder at WF for many years and have found them to be very attentive to my needs, can do almost everything over the phone or internet. Live customer service 24/7.


9 posted on 04/24/2012 12:56:55 PM PDT by eastforker (Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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To: SmithL

Wells Fargo has some interesting history in San Francisco.

In the 19th Century, a prominent banker built the Parrott Building, but ignored warnings from the Chinese of the area that the site had terrible Feng Shui. That bank was wiped out in a financial panic, and Wells Fargo bought the building, paying for a gold plated Feng Shui cleaning from several Feng Shui masters.

It paid off, becoming the “spiritually cleanest” and best luck building in SF, at least in the eyes of the 10% of the cities population who were Chinese. And the safest and best place to deposit their savings. This made their Parrott Building HQ a solid anchor around which to expand.

I guess they should have shelled out some bucks to have their current HQ cleaned and luckified.


10 posted on 04/24/2012 12:57:22 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("It is already like a government job," he said, "but with goats." -- Iranian goat smuggler)
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To: eastforker
Of course, the local Wells employees go out of their way to help, and most of them are completely oblivious to how supportive of leftist causes Wells Fargo is.

If you support fake homo "marriage," company paid (your dime) "sex reassignment" surgery, contempt for the BSA, and every other leftist wet dream, keep banking with Wells. I've washed my hands of them completely.

11 posted on 04/24/2012 1:00:26 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude; eastforker

I closed my Wells Fargo account, back in the early 90s, when they publicly announced that they were cutting off funding to the Boy Scouts.

When they asked if it was because I was dissatisfied with their service, I told them their service was fine, but their corporate policies were unacceptable to me. But since I had a real job, I never got around to protesting in the streets.


12 posted on 04/24/2012 1:15:44 PM PDT by SmithL (If you reward certain behavior, don't be surprised when you see more of that behavior)
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To: SmithL
More than a half-dozen protesters

Sheesh. A couple dozen left overs from the failed occupy movement get together and hold hands - and it actually makes some kind of news. How pathetic is that?
Slow news day? Haven't these parasitic losers found a place to live yet?

13 posted on 04/24/2012 1:21:34 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

if they can only round up a few hundred in San Francisco I’d say this movement is D-E-A-D dead!


14 posted on 04/24/2012 1:36:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: eastforker
... have been an account holder at WF for many years and have found them to be very attentive to my needs ...

I'm sure all works well at times. Our encounter with WF last year was a total fiasco.

15 posted on 04/24/2012 3:09:01 PM PDT by ken in texas
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