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Protesters occupy Hemming Plaza in Downtown Jacksonville

Joseph Basco Oct 12, 2011
“We are the 99 percent.” Jacksonville recently joined the Occupy Together movement.
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Occupying Wall Street and the redistribution of facts

Spinnaker Oct 6, 2011
New census data show the wrenching impact the recession has had on our nation’s citizens. Specifically, young adults in the 20- to 30-year-old range, waiting in a prolonged period of joblessness.
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Review: Fleet Foxes at Florida Theatre

Spinnaker Sep 23, 2011
One Spinnaker contributing writer checked out the Fleet Foxes show at the Florida Theatre Sept. 20.
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Obama wrecks trade

Spinnaker Sep 16, 2009

Ghosts from the 2008 campaign trail have begun to rear their ugly heads. What most experts considered simple rhetoric, especially concerning trade policy, are now coming to fruition. President Barack...

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Editorial: Informing society no joking matter

Spinnaker Apr 1, 2009

We’ve all heard the story of the little boy who cried wolf one too many times. He joked around and everyone believed him, so when a wolf really came into the field to eat the little boy and all of his...

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Commentary: There is still hope for Wall Street

Spinnaker Mar 25, 2009

Everyday we hear it. Businesses across the nation are closing, taxpayers are foreclosing on their homes in record numbers, and banks are failing like never before as a result of a national credit crunch...

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Around the State, Nation, & World Jan. 20

Spinnaker Jan 21, 2009
Widespread optimism about President Barack Obama’s inauguration celebration in Washington negatively correlated to Wall Street. The major indexes plunged more than 4 percent Jan. 20, while the Dow slipped below 8,000, as new fears about the stability of America’s biggest banks roiled the markets
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Bailouts urge students to ‘End the Fed’

Spinnaker Dec 3, 2008
J acksonville citizens, including several UNF students, participated in the “End the Fed” rally Nov. 22 downtown at the Jacksonville Federal Reserve Building. Approximately 150 people gathered to protest the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department’s bailout of Wall Street and the planned bailout of the automakers. The rally was part of a 39-city protest. Some cities had thousands of supporters listening and chanting to Republican and emocrat elected officials who opposed thebailout. Police officers (right) were called in to videotape the protest.
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