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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8913-mike-checking-john-stumpf-an-inside-report-on-protesting-wells-fargos-shareholder-meeting

Fed up with Wells Fargo's corrosive behavior, thousands of everyday Americans came to Wells Fargo's annual shareholder meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 24, to let the top executives know that the 99 percent would no longer tolerate corporate malfeasance. Nearly 200 protesters bought shares in Wells Fargo ahead of the meeting and prepared to attend representing the communities hardest hit by Wells Fargo's bad business practices. They were there to face CEO John Stumpf and demand that instead of foreclosures, Wells Fargo adjust loans and keep families in their homes; instead of financing payday lenders and private prisons, Wells Fargo invest in green jobs and energy; instead of avoiding its responsibilities, Wells Fargo pay its fair share of taxes; and instead of its PAC donating to politicians who fix the rules of our democracy to benefit the 1 percent, Wells Fargo get its money out of our democracy and let it truly be of, by and for the people.

A broad coalition of groups helped organize the protest, including of ReFUND California, Causa Justa, PICO National Network, San Francisco Organizing Project, Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Service Employees International Union, Occupy Wall Street West, and many more.

This is the story of how a few "shareholders" went inside Wells Fargo's meeting to confront its president and CEO John Stumpf...