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THE battle to save the world is an arduous and paradoxical one. Today's most visible scourge of globalisation and brands is herself an inexhaustible globetrotting brand: a 32-year-old Canadian journalist, armed with little more than a portable computer, a plane ticket and Internet access. Naomi Klein is the pre-eminent figure (she would deplore the term “leader”) in a worldwide protest movement against companies, free trade and global integration—in effect, against capitalism—that has no name or organisation, but is the most vigorous expression of leftist sentiment since the 1960s. The movement burst on to the scene in Seattle in December 1999,...

More than two weeks after a band of young people began camping out under the shadow of the New York Stock Exchange, the movement to remake America’s inequitable financial system is growing It’s been called the Woodstock of Wall Street, but that’s hardly an apt comparison. The gathering at Max Yasgur’s farm 42 years ago was built on a generation looking for peace, love, some drugs and acid rock. The kids today are looking for real, tangible change of the capitalist sort. They’re organized, lucid and motivated.

I know this site is not Dear Abby but I need to turn to the freeper family for advice. I have been laid off from Wells Fargo Auto Finance Since December 10th 2008. I was in the top 3 people in the nation so I thought I was bullet proof. However when Wells Fargo bought Wachovia I thought things would be ok until Wells Fargo decided that they liked Wachovia’s Auto unit better than their own. Instead of taking the best from both companies they just laid off all of the people in their own auto group and replaced them...