Archive for October 27th, 2009

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Several thousand citizens made their voices heard this week in Chicago at the American Bankers Association convention, telling the banksters that enough is enough. We’re sick of them taking trillions of dollars in taxpayer cash and supports while handing out millions in bonuses to their executives. It’s time to break up the big banking firms and re-regulate the financial markets. The videos above and below are from this week’s protests; the Huffington Post has some more. You can also get a lot more information and find out how to take action at Showdown in Chicago.

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Things have been quiet on the Don’t Get Rolled front. We’re still waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision, and there’s still good reason to fear that the court could overturn a century of campaign finance law, allowing unlimited corporate spending to influence elections. Sound like a bad idea to you? You can pledge to protest if the court decides to open the floodates to corporate money in politics.

Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), primary sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002, eloquently defend the campaign finance laws that the court is threatening in the YouTube videos below.

Sen. McCain:

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