The citizen-organized protests to reform the banks (as opposed to the Fox orchestrated "bright shiny object" teabagger protests to blame black people) are going to be taking place in 70 cities across the country today.
You can find the one closest to you here.
Bill Greider and I are going to be at the Lafayette Park demonstration here in Washington DC. He talked about it on Moyers recently (youtube). He’s a real progressive hero and although it’s raining, I’m excited about going and really looking forward to meeting him.
Hope you can join us.
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that guy is totally FAB,you too
Perhaps an understatement.
Go get ‘em, Tigers!
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One less bank to picket here in CO. Largest failure so far this year
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/C…..02009.html
You got it. I’m still struggling with the concept that the party itself is worthy of a reform effort…
we are literally heading out the door . . .
note to Austin attendees – I’m wearing Banker drag w/ sandwich board that reads “Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion ?” /Fire Larry Summers !!! on the back
see y’all there !! oooh so excited
I want pictures.
I’d love to take my pitchfork, but I’m afraid the local cops might get the wrong idea. A bunch of them are in trouble for getting drunk after duty and driving around throwing eggs in minority neighborhoods. A bunch of great citizens, huh?
Peterr’s up with
The Joys and Sorrows of Serving Those in Need
leaving for SF right now. Great work by you and Greider!
Seconded!
Alas, no one has planned a demo here in Hawaii. Our Progressive Democrats of Hawaii didn’t focus on this, and no one else stepped forward to organize it.
I hope that nationally there’s a good showing!
Bob in HI
protest doomed to failure. Nothing but sound and fury, signifying, nothing. The multinationals will never listen to protests. They already own the congress and the agencies that regulate them. They can get billions from TARP and the Fed, so why pay attention to a few protesters? Nobody paid attention to the protesters at Davo did they? Or at the G8? Or at the G20?
I find this (not unusal) sentiment strange. Because a tactic was used in other times and places and did not work then, it can never work? (Then again, I also find it strange that some people think that street protests are the only way to bring about change – both positions seem premised on the idea that context doesn’t matter.)
The issue isn’t whether the banks will listen. This targets the public for persuasion and as much as anything else – there is plenty of anger out there that is looking for a legitimate outlet. That makes this effort quite different from most others.
The point for politicians and bankers is not about persuasion but about raising the costs of continuing what they are doing. The fact that they got away with outrageous things when people were not yet mobilized doesn’t tell us what they can get away with when people are mobilized.
Well, unless the protests start including a civil disobedience companant, like they did in the 60s with the civl rights movement I am afraid I agree, but it is a start. We have to do protests that cost the bankers and their political chronies money.
Your little protest was really, really, little, i.e., an epic fail. Because it’s hard to pretend you’re the voice of the people, when you’re really just another PR front of the White House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded
Watch and enjoy!
I know Rahm will be pleased!
Nice of you to drop by.
Now go do some math.
President Obama 69,492,376
Senator John McCain 59,946,378
Welcome to Washington, D.C.
It’s good of you guys to not yank my registration, and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Thanks.
You won the election. That’s a fact. It was in all the papers.
But the level of spending President Obama and his team is engaging in is truly amazing, and it would damage the country even if it were spent on priorities more congenial to the right, e.g., on the military. It will result in levels of inflation and taxation that will really hurt the poor and the middle class, and it will do so for decades, because it will cripple the private economic growth that the Obama team claims will get us out of our economic malaise. (And remember, inflation is the most regressive form of taxation. Who is hurt by the price of milk, Ruth Madoff, or the guy making 20K per year?)
People are starting to figure this out. President Obama knows that his plans are becoming progressively unpopular, which is why he is presently taking the ”kitchen sink” approach, and attempting to rush through pretty much all his legislative priorities right away, before the 2010 election greatly reduces, or eliminates, his majorities in the House and Senate.
Scroll through Instapundit, today and in the archive, and see the size of Tea Party crowds.
Compare with your dozen perpetual protesters dressed in shocking pink.
The ”people” are wise to you.
They don’t like you any more.
There’s a new post. Come on up and join in.