There is no valid political reason to use Wells Fargo for the people’ money, and this decision shows that this is NOT a leaderless movement.a few people are beginning to manipulate the many, and they are hiding behind the fiction of leaderlessness. Below is what SHOULD be happening.
”I’ve been fighting to keep this building for the community,” Blakely said. “But I’m an old lady. I had no man-power.” So she said she went down to Zuccotti Park, home base for the Occupy Wall Street protests, and recruited activists. “I saw all of these young children that had real skill and ability,” she said. “I said to them, ‘We’re done with all the massaging and intellectualizing. What’s next? If you really want to see what’s really going on, [follow me],'” she recalled telling the protesters at a General Assembly. “It’s time for action.”
One by one, the Occupy Wall Street protesters trickled in to Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely’s second-floor walk-up in Harlem. They sat cross-legged on the floor or leaned in the doorways, passing muffins and listening to Blakely, a veteran
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I agree. This was a boneheaded decision with so much symbolic power. The movement hangs in the balance and with a few more moves like this it can evaporate in an instant. And a historic moment will evaporate forever. Where is the transparency? Who made this decision? I understand it was voted on by the GA but can we see the minutes? It feels like manipulation. Do people understand that Wells Fargo has responded this with its own PR:
“If this report is true,” spokesman Ruben Pulido said in an e-mail, “it demonstrates that even Occupy Oakland understands — firsthand — the value and service that Wells Fargo provides its customers.”
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19300478
It makes OO into a laughing stock.