Rally for Reform of Financial System "Showdown in Chicago"

[clear eye]

w/ Richard Trumka (pres. of the AFL-CIO)
at American Bankers Assoc. Mtg.
Sheraton Hotel
301 E. North Water St.
Oct. 27th
10:30am CST

"Things might be turning around for the bankers, but for the rest of us, unemployment heads toward 10 percent and home foreclosures continue to devastate families and communities. Working families have lost health care, pensions and savings—and in exchange we’ve gotten predatory lending, outrageous overdraft fees and sky-high credit card interest rates.

Meanwhile, the bankers are doing the Charleston, taking taxpayer money, handing out bonuses for disastrous failure, becoming profitable without lending money that could put people back to work—and spending billions lobbying Congress to kill financial reform.

On Tuesday, about 5,000 of us will be in Chicago to tell them what we think."

More details including the list of four demands for reforming the financial system is here.

{Hmm. The Bankers' Assoc. Mtg. has a 1920's theme this year. Sure hope that isn't prophetic.}