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May 12 Make Big Banks and Millionaires Pay Their Fair Share Rally

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On May 12th 2011 in New York City organizations of all kinds, community members, civil service employee's, student's, and the homeless took to the streets to demand it's time to make the big banks and millionaires pay their fair share and to educate the public at designated teach-ins about Housing, Immigration, Jobs, Education, Human Services, Public Transit/Energy, and the real cost of the War. read more about onmay 12 at http://www.onmay12.org
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  • Warren_Merrill
  • artemis6
  • Mark701
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      Mark701  

    • Can't say I disagree given it was the banks and financial institutions like Goldman Sachs that put us in this mess.

      But you want to hear something that will REALLY piss you off. I read today that some Republicans are suggesting that we start selling off our (public) assets to pay down the debt their buddies in the private banking industry created. The sheer audacity of that suggestion is near incomprehensible. Not only did they suck the tax payers dry of a trillion dollars to bail their golden asses out, but now they are suggesting we sell off Americas assets to pay down the debt THEY CREATED!!

      I have a better idea. Seize everything the banks own and nationalize it. Raise the taxes on the rich and corporations and severely punish the ones that send our jobs overseas. If they threaten to leave, let them. I can't imagine life will be worse without them than with them. Smaller, cheaper, more efficient and more responsive companies will take their place. They think we need them. We don't. They need US!

    • 1 year ago
  • SIBob
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      SIBob  
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    • And what a rally it was, taking it into the belly of the beast, Wall St.
      Sometimes in NYC people make me proud and this day was one occasion when that happened. The first time in recent memory that I felt like that was on February 21, 2011 at the rally for Wisconsin in City Hall Park.
      I was at the UFT rally that started in City Hall Park the other day where many speakers did their thing. Those included were Al Sharpton, Randi Weingarten, Hazel Dukes, Michael Mulgrew, Bill De Blasio and Charles Barron, among others. That group then marched down to Wall St. where there was a crowd waiting. The momentum seems to be growing. I just hope we can translate this energy into effective change.
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      http://sibob.org/wordpress/?p=4210

    • 1 year ago
  • Suziqu
  • CalgarC
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      CalgarC  

    • this whole middle eastern protest thing is spreading like wildfire... mostly due to the fact that even our own government is starting to treat us like 3rd world people

    • 1 year ago
  • peoplesmovement
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      peoplesmovement  
    • CalgarC:

      I believe It's been happening for a long time yet, mostly unnoticed due to differences in struggles. There is common ground here and as noted earlier everyone will be affected somehow.

    • 1 year ago
  • MDBard
  • Warren_Merrill
  • MDBard
  • Warren_Merrill
  • MDBard
  • Warren_Merrill
  • cicly
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      cicly  

    • real american people; that 98% - they should all be out on the streets across the country. the world needs the american people to stand up and take back their country. no one else can do it .

    • 1 year ago
  • peoplesmovement
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      peoplesmovement  
    • cicly:

      I agree, many more vids are coming out now. It was a great show of solidarity. It's the only way some true inspiring change will take place. These are serious issues that affects everyone in some form or fashion and the people understand that.

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
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