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What a perfect day for a protest! Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman and SEIU’s Andy Stern rallied the crowd in front of the Capitol Hill headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Our message? Break up the banks.
Several speakers and numerous signs at the protest called for Congress to break up the “too big to fail” banks – a proposal that’s actually gaining some traction on Capitol Hill.
Some of the banks have gotten too big for the health of the economy and for American democracy, proclaimed Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a government watchdog group.
“That’s the message: Break them up!” he yelled, the crowd following with several rounds of chanting that message.
Numerous Public Citizen activists turned out, holding high our protest signs demanding “Put people before Wall Street profits” and “Don’t let the banks drive us off another cliff.”
Meanwhile, our new report on Wall Street firms’ donations to Congressional re-election campaigns raises serious questions about
