The white collar criminologist calls out Bush and Obama for not prosecuting financial fraud and demands an end to the free pass for campaign contributors.
The CEOs of major banks maintained they were in good financial shape. Meanwhile, they secretly borrowed massive amounts from the government to stay afloat.
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.
Around the country, in groups and individually, Americans voted with their dollars this week to move away from the banks that caused the economic crisis.
Andy Kroll, Nomi Prins, Mother Jones. November 8, 2011.
The "pay cap" the Obama administration put on seven bailed-out companies was largely symbolic. Here are the unaffected players still making bank off the bubble and the bailout.
What does it mean to stop cooperating with the banks? Some activists, organizers, and technologists think the answer might be mass refusal to pay debts.
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.
Bank Transfer Day (Nov. 5) is just around the corner. Time to assert your economic citizenship and end the dysfunctional relationship with your blood-sucking bank.
Public anger will keep growing as long as the government keeps handing out free passes instead of perp walks to bankers at serial corporate criminals like Citigroup.
Police, teachers, the corporate press, mental health professionals -- the guards of the system -- are given small rewards to pacify and control the population.
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.
