Union chief leads protest against bankers
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka rallied thousands of people in downtown Chicago Tuesday to protest U.S. banks' practices and urge tougher regulations. With the American Bankers Association holding its annual convention in the city, Trumka lambasted the bankers, accusing them of failing American...
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- News Source: The Nation | 27 days agoThe ABA's annual convention has become the scene for a series of major protests, which are set to continue through Tuesday, when a major march and rally is planned. Dubbed " the Showdown in Chicago ," thousands of Americans are demonstrating against...
- News Source: The Hill | 27 days agoIt is time to let the big banks know that they don’t own the country. People do.” “This level of anger demonstrates that people are sick and tired of the banks taking their money and mortgaging away their economy,” said Dan Pedrotty,...
- News Source: United Press International | 27 days agoAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka rallied thousands of people in downtown Chicago Tuesday to protest U.S. banks' practices and urge tougher regulations. With the American Bankers Association holding its annual convention in the city, Trumka lambasted...
- News Source: The Age | 27 days agoCarrying signs proclaiming "Hold Wall Street accountable" and "Foreclosures ruin communities," they demanded more help for those who have lost their jobs and their homes as they sang "hey hey, ho ho, those bailout bonuses have got to go." The Obama...
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- Blog Source: www.campaignforliberty.comThis week the American Bankers Association is holding meetings in Chicago. They will be joined by protesters, for the most part organized by the SEIU and other union-affiliated groups, urging that banks should be held accountable. ...
- Blog Source: www.rationalreview.comChicago: Thousands protest bailout bonuses at bank meeting. Source: Agence France-Presse. Posted on 10.27.09 by Steve Trinward. “Thousands of protesters chanted 'the banks got bailed out we got sold out' as they marched through the streets of ...
- Blog Source: features.csmonitor.comDemonstrators at the American Bankers Association convention Tuesday decried banks' greed and lack of transparency. But officials say the bankers in Chicago aren't the ones who were bailed out by the federal government. ... Mr. Yingling called the
- Blog Source: seminal.firedoglake.comThe crowd is marching to the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, site of the American Bankers Association meeting, to protest the banking industry's greed and irresponsibility that crippled our economy, leaving millions of workers behind. ... Praising
- Blog Source: laborpains.orgThis entry posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 3:26 pm by J. Justin Wilson and tagged as Center for Union Facts, SEIU. Digg this post! | Del.ici.ous this post! LaborPains.org is powered by WordPress ...
- Blog Source: blog.aflcio.orgIt is time the Union Movement puts all its power against the big bankers… When we start to take our finances out of their hands, (pockets) and put them into the hands of smaller local banks that did not receive trillion dollar bailouts ...
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