OCCUPY WALL STREET

[SoNotHer]

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-1uhuvUx

Tell House Democrats: Stand up to Wall Street banks

It sounds really simple: The largest banks that caused the housing crisis that led to our economic meltdown should be investigated fully, punished to the full extent of the law, and forced to compensate their victims for the harm they caused.

But the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to quickly cut a deal with the banks that lets them off the hook for massive amounts of mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

Democratic Representative Tammy Baldwin is pushing back. She has introduced a resolution that supports taking a tough line with the banks.

The more Democratic members of Congress who cosponsor it, the stronger the message it will send to President Obama that he cannot give Wall Street a "get out of jail free" card for mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks. Not one of the Wall Street crooks who drove our economy off a cliff has gone to jail. And without aggressive investigation and prosecution of misconduct, none of them will.

Yet the Obama administration is pushing for a deal between state attorneys general and the large mortgage firms that essentially revolves around how lightly the banks would get off. There has been no real investigation, and no real push for meaningful penalties or accountability. In many ways, the settlement terms under consideration would amount to another backdoor bailout for the banks.

This is unacceptable. Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks.

Rep. Baldwin's resolution has three tenets:

(1) The mortgage servicers who engaged in fraudulent behavior should not be granted criminal or civil immunity for potential wrongdoing related to illegal mortgage and foreclosure practices.

(2) The Federal Government and State attorneys general should proceed with full investigations into claims of fraudulent behavior by mortgage servicers.

(3) Any financial settlement reached with mortgage servicers should appropriately compensate for, and accurately reflect, the extent of harm to all victims, including homeowners and State pension beneficiaries, caused by the mortgage servicers' fraudulent behavior.

What's on the table now--and what the Obama administration is pressuring the states to accept--falls far short of these standards. While the Baldwin resolution itself is non-binding, a large number of Democratic co-sponsors will do two things. First it will make it harder to spin a terrible settlement deal as a victory, which itself makes a deal less likely. Second, by establishing criteria for what an acceptable settlement might look like, it helps demonstrate the inadequacy of what's on the table.

We need to put the brakes on the headlong rush by state attorneys general and the Obama administration to settle with the banks. It's incompatible with the health of our democracy to allow wealthy and powerful people off the hook after they have caused massive and widespread suffering.

Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-1uhuvUx

[atomiczombie]

It's not on You Tube so I can't embed, but this is a video about the call to action on November 17th. It's so awesome I wanted to share it!

http://vimeo.com/31114509

[SoNotHer]

Beautiful and inspiring - thank you for posting this, AZ.

I am so proud of everyone moving this forward. It has given me such hope. :-)

Originally Posted by atomiczombie

It's not on You Tube so I can't embed, but this is a video about the call to action on November 17th. It's so awesome I wanted to share it!

http://vimeo.com/31114509

[SoNotHer]

Occupy Atlanta Encamps In Neighborhood To Save Police Officer’s Home From Foreclosure
By Zaid Jilani on Nov 8, 2011 at 11:30 am

Occupy Atlanta has repeatedly run into hurdles, as it has been evicted from Woodruff Park in Atlanta multiple times by the city’s unsympathetic mayor, Kasim Reed. Yet the group was invigorated yesterday as it moved to a new location to take action for economic justice.

Last week, Tawanna Rorey’s husband, a police officer based in Gwinnett County, e-mailed Occupy Atlanta to explain that his home was going to be foreclosed on and his family was in danger of being evicted on Monday. So within a few hours Occupy Atlanta developed an action plan to move to Snellville, Georgia on Monday to stop the foreclosure. At least two dozen protesters encamped on the family’s lawn, to the applause of neighbors and bystanders.

Nearly two dozen protesters assembled Monday afternoon at Tawanna Rorey’s four-bedroom home in a neighborhood just south of Snellville, clogging the narrow, winding street that runs in front of the house with cars, vans and TV trucks. Many neighbors stopped to gawk at the spectacle and even honked their car horns in support of the crowd. [...] [The protesters] set up two tents in the front yard, draped a “This Home is Occupied” sign over the porch railing and handed out bottled water and granola bars to other members.

A local CBS station filed a report about the new occupation. Watch it:



The Sheriff’s Department did not come to evict the Roreys that day. A spokesman for the department told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the foreclosure process is still ongoing and that it has not scheduled an eviction. “It’s a good cause,” said Diona Murray, one of the Roreys’ neighbors, about the occupation. “If we don’t take a stand, who will?”

[atomiczombie]

Originally Posted by SoNotHer

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-1uhuvUx

Tell House Democrats: Stand up to Wall Street banks

It sounds really simple: The largest banks that caused the housing crisis that led to our economic meltdown should be investigated fully, punished to the full extent of the law, and forced to compensate their victims for the harm they caused.

But the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to quickly cut a deal with the banks that lets them off the hook for massive amounts of mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

Democratic Representative Tammy Baldwin is pushing back. She has introduced a resolution that supports taking a tough line with the banks.

The more Democratic members of Congress who cosponsor it, the stronger the message it will send to President Obama that he cannot give Wall Street a "get out of jail free" card for mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks. Not one of the Wall Street crooks who drove our economy off a cliff has gone to jail. And without aggressive investigation and prosecution of misconduct, none of them will.

Yet the Obama administration is pushing for a deal between state attorneys general and the large mortgage firms that essentially revolves around how lightly the banks would get off. There has been no real investigation, and no real push for meaningful penalties or accountability. In many ways, the settlement terms under consideration would amount to another backdoor bailout for the banks.

This is unacceptable. Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks.

Rep. Baldwin's resolution has three tenets:

(1) The mortgage servicers who engaged in fraudulent behavior should not be granted criminal or civil immunity for potential wrongdoing related to illegal mortgage and foreclosure practices.

(2) The Federal Government and State attorneys general should proceed with full investigations into claims of fraudulent behavior by mortgage servicers.

(3) Any financial settlement reached with mortgage servicers should appropriately compensate for, and accurately reflect, the extent of harm to all victims, including homeowners and State pension beneficiaries, caused by the mortgage servicers' fraudulent behavior.

What's on the table now--and what the Obama administration is pressuring the states to accept--falls far short of these standards. While the Baldwin resolution itself is non-binding, a large number of Democratic co-sponsors will do two things. First it will make it harder to spin a terrible settlement deal as a victory, which itself makes a deal less likely. Second, by establishing criteria for what an acceptable settlement might look like, it helps demonstrate the inadequacy of what's on the table.

We need to put the brakes on the headlong rush by state attorneys general and the Obama administration to settle with the banks. It's incompatible with the health of our democracy to allow wealthy and powerful people off the hook after they have caused massive and widespread suffering.

Tell House Democrats: Stand with Tammy Baldwin and stand up to Wall Street banks.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...059182-1uhuvUx

1. Yay Tammy. She f'kin rocks.
2. I signed.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by atomiczombie

1. Yay Tammy. She f'kin rocks.
2. I signed.

Me too.....

[Kätzchen]

This morning I got a txt from Team Blue about our President drafting and implementing a US amendment to the constitution to clean up ethics issues and term limits for the US Supreme Court. I was like: “Yeah, I’m on your side Joe, Let’s Go Team Blue!”

I’m bumping this ages old thread by Atomiczombie that is ripe with posts made years ago that reflect the challenges people face everyday in America: Police brutality, brutal treatment of those who migrate and immigrate to the US, problematic institutional issues that are still current today with Wall Street, Banking entities, Tax evasion by the so-called wealthy (t—p, et al), and of course at the bottom of the ‘swamp’ is all the GOP elected officials who make laws and decisions in the best interest of themselves and the rich who don’t give two hoots about the ordinary citizen, big pharmaceutical interest or PAC’s whose dark interests want your money to keep tearing you down so they can ‘rule the world’ (tears for fears reference).

We need a tsunami of voters who will hurtle us past the dark interests of those who continue to tear down our country and violate democracy.

I hope new members, or members still around, enjoy reading this thread. Thank you to all the members here who posted years ago.

Remember: Freedom — it’s what we must fight for every day, every year and in every election cycle in our country. Freedom from violence, freedom from organized oppression, freedom in our personal lives and freedom from fraud, and freedom from dark interests who only care about lining their pockets with your hard earned money. Don’t let them win. Support Democracy. Support Freedom.

[Kätzchen]

I am bumping AtomicZombie’s forum thread again today. I miss the members of our online community who cared deeply about socio-cultural-political issues that continue to dominate American’s lives.

In today’s current “economy” it would seem that Team Hate is ‘ruling’ the world (Trump & his family of crooks, con-artists & the GOP, etc) and in other places across the globe there is Team Hate in Russia (Putin) and Team Hate in a Mediterranean country who is killing (ethnic cleansing) a certain indigenous people that do not deserve to die or be starved to death or shot at or (…).

The apocalypse is really here and all people are concerned about, in my opinion, is political rivals who outclass them in ethical treatment practices and how they can get revenge on them. But, according to their own version of biblical prophecy “all of it is as it should be.” Meanwhile … people are so overwhelmed with news coverage and reporting about all these evil deeds, that it would appear that the Haters are winning, every single moment of life on earth.

We need an Occupy Hateful People movement supported by a People for Life & Love movement, I think.🤔

Before it’s too late.