Occupy Birmingham joins groups from around Birmingham including the Black Warrior Riverkeeper in demanding that University of Alabama president, Dr. Witt, and the Board of Trustees make a commitment that they will neither sell nor lease university land for the Shepherd Bend Mine.
The Shepherd Bend Mine would discharge pollutants into the Black Warrior River, just 800 feet from a major drinking water intake for 200,000 people

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Private detention centers capitalize on human suffering to make a profit. Wells Fargo uses its mutual funds to invest in two of the largest for-profit detention companies: Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group. As of December 2010, Wells Fargo had invested $5.9 million in Corrections Corporation of America and $88.7 million in the GEO Group,

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Concerned citizens joined with Occupy Birmingham and numerous other civic and religious organizations to stand up for the civil and economic rights of Alabama and protest the state’s new, repressive immigration policy, H.B. 56, and its participation in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and deportation program.

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Bank Transfer Day is a consumer activism initiative calling for a voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions by November 5, 2011.

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Continuing a tradition started in 1947, Birmingham's Veterans Day parade made its way through downtown.

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