Join the protest on 19 March 2009 in your city!
Are you upset about the latest AIG scandal where millions of dollars of the American taxpayers' bailout money were misused to pay special bonuses to their corporate executives -- the very same executives who swindled thousands of their clients and ran the company -- and the world's economy -- into the ground?
Of course, at the same time that 73 AIG executives are receiving bonuses of one million dollars or more, tens of millions of American taxpayers are facing unemployment, crushing debt, and loss of their housing, health insurance, and even the ability to buy food!
If this makes you angry (and how can it not, unless you are a family member of one of the 73 corporate thieves who got one million dollars or more), now is the time to make your voice heard by these professional racketeers who are abusing the government to steal absolutely everything of value that they can from us.
I (along with my camera, mp3 recorder and very painful broken wrist) will be attending the "Take Back our Economy" protest in NYC at 4pm on 19 March 2009 in front of the Goldman Sachs Headquarters at 85 Broad St [map]. There are protests scheduled to occur all around the country on Thursday, 19 March -- protests that you can and SHOULD participate in! I hope to see you in NYC or to hear that you have attended a similar protest in your own city. Further, if you publish your images, podcasts or written reports, send me the links or better, post them in the comments thread and I'll share them with the Huffington Post, where I occasionally volunteer. The Huffington Post will give link love and may also ask to republish your images.
No one is protecting us from the real thieves: corporate CEOs, bankers and financial analysts. NOW is the time to stand up for ourselves and to make it known that enough is enough!
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Illegimati non carborundum!
(Dog Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down!")
The swindles of GW (GIEC) + Increase in the price of the barrel of unjustified oil + banking "failures" (it parried that there are fewer rich multimillionaires!!!!),
question: Where goes silver?
Yeah, it seems stupid giving them the bonuses, but what are the alternatives? Overthrowing a legal and (probably) binding contract? Modifying the tax code to target unpopular people? Impeaching congressmen who enact laws without reading them first?