Bill Moyers talks to Simon Johnson, once chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and now MIT professor, about the (possible) fall of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan.
Around the country, families are being tossed out of their homes with astonishing regularity, with local law enforcement enlisted to do the bidding of big banks.
While there's almost nothing B of A does that is for the people, it sure as hell is paid for by the people. Now activists are pushing to break it up before it breaks down--again.
Banks are claiming that the accounts closed in the last six weeks won't hurt them, but they're willing to go to all sorts of lengths to prevent customers from leaving.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, AlterNet. October 31, 2011.
A participant in the Liberty Plaza occupation on the way the movement is changing and the people it's touching, from Eliot Spitzer to Baruch college freshmen.
The movement spreading around the United States and the world is simply too big and too radical to be co-opted by political parties or establishment groups.
Schneiderman is the best and probably last hope for some kind of public retribution against the banksters, some righting of wrongs--rolling of heads--as far as the Great Recession.
Protesters from the week-old "occupation" in New York's financial district were arrested, penned up, and Maced on Saturday when the NYPD showed up to their march.
On September 1, nurses will converge on congressional offices, calling on lawmakers to support a tax on financial transactions to raise revenues to "heal America."
