Archive for October 21st, 2009

moneyboaThe big corporate banks and Wall Street institutions that took our economy to the brink of collapse are coming to Chicago.

After taking our trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout, these big banks have been doling out huge executive bonuses, raking in profits and spending millions to defeat reform that would crack down on their risky and predatory practices.

Enough is enough – it’s time to take our demands for more accountability to the streets. Thousands of others will be protesting the banksters at the upcoming American Banking Association convention in Chicago. Learn how to get involved here.

Executives from the nation’s biggest banks will be there. We need to show them that we won’t back down until there is more oversight, transparency and accountability in the banking industry. The more people who protest in Chicago, the more attention we’ll get in Washington for our work fighting for commonsense reforms!

What: SHOWDOWN IN CHICAGO: March on the bankers convention to put the people first!

Where: Chicago, Illinois. The march will start at the intersection of Stetson and Wacker, cross the Chicago River and end with a rally at the Banker’s Convention at the Sheraton Hotel (301 East North Water Street, Chicago).

When: Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 10:30 a.m.

Be a Public Citizen! Bring your homemade signs! Go to our Web site and tell us what slogans and sentiments you’ll put on your sign. There also will be events held on Sunday, Oct. 25 and Monday, Oct. 26. Learn more here about what’s happening during the Showdown in Chicago.

If you can’t make it to the protest, you can still take action.

Flickr photo by Confetti.

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How much of your personal information is Google willing to turn over to a third party without a fight? We’ve asked a California federal court to unseal a report that would give customers of the world’s largest Internet company an answer to that question.

Google handed the report in question over to a judge in September to comply with a restraining order requested by Rocky Mountain Bank. The bank requested the order after it mistakenly sent the bank records for more than 1,000 customers to the wrong Gmail account. In the order granted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Google was told to deactivate the Gmail account and to provide contact information about the user of the Gmail account and whether he or she had read the e-mail. Google and the Gmail account holder also were told they couldn’t read the email, download the records or forward them to anyone.

A Gmail user who did nothing wrong had his or her account shut down because of the bank’s monumental screw up. And Google, a company that basically prints its own cash, didn’t lift a finger to protect the rights of one of its users. I love my Gmail account but this is a good reminder that there is

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