THE REVOLUTION MIGHT BE TELEVISED...THIS TUESDAY FROM CHICAGO

 

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by Earl Nash

Pent up anger at the Banksters will spill out in a mass demonstration in Chicago, Sunday through Tuesday, THIS week: 

  “The American People vs.

 The Wall Street Banks.”

On Tuesday, outside the American Bankers Association conference, thousands of taxpayers will vent their ire at the bankers and their “bailout” scheme.  People from more than 20 states will be there; people who have had their homes foreclosed, their jobs eliminated, and their live savings wiped away. They’re going to demand that bankers stop using their money to lobby against reforms that would prevent another financial crisis.

Wall Street banksters have taken $17.8 trillion of public tax dollars through bailouts and turned them into massive pay and bonuses for themselves. Goldman Sachs alone is expected to pay more than $23 billion just in bonuses this year; that's more than $43,000 a minute, every minute.

“On Sunday, we're literally putting the big banks on trial. The American public will make the case against the Wall Street greed that caused the economic collapse. On Monday, taxpayers will be holding demonstrations at big banks throughout the city. And, on Tuesday, more than 5,000 taxpayers will march on the ABA conference, demanding that they stop lobbying against financial reform with our tax dollars.

This is going to be the largest protest against big bank greed since the financial crisis first hit.”—Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009

10:30am - Goldman Sachs Chicago Headquarters, 71 S. Wacker
The American People will ask Goldman Sachs to donate its entire projected $23 billion dollar bonus pool to prevent every foreclosure in America in 2010 AND lift one million families out of the poverty and joblessness that was caused by Goldman Sachs' gambling with our economy.

12:00pm – American Bankers Association convention, 301 East North Water Street
Big banks are spending billions to prevent reforms that would protect taxpayers from their future abuses. Nearly a thousand Americans will take our message directly to the American Bankers Association at their annual convention.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009

MARCH TO THE BANKER'S CONVENTION

10:00am - Prayer vigil on Wacker, east of Michigan Avenue
10:30am - March: starting at Stetson and Wacker
11:00am - Rally at the Sheraton Hotel (301 East North Water Street, Chicago)

No registration required for Tuesday's march. For more information, visit www.stopbankgreed.org or contact [email protected]