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Why 150 People Wore Swimsuits and Snorkels in the Streets of Boston Today

January 30, 2012 By massuniting Leave a Comment

Sure, it has been an unusually warm winter for us in New England, but that's not why more than 150 activists took to the streets with snorkels and swimsuits today in the financial district. Sporting goggles, flippers and life preservers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bank-of-america, banks, City-Life, fannie-mae, foreclosure, freddie-mac, MassUniting, protest

Coakley to Big Banks: It’s On!

December 1, 2011 By massuniting 2 Comments

It's been three years since the big banks crashed our economy, costing millions of American families their homes, their jobs and their life savings. Their “punishment” to date: taxpayer bailouts and huge bonuses for bank executives. All … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: attorney-general, attorney-general-martha-coakley, bank-of-america, big-banks, foreclosures, jp-morgan, ma-ag, martha-coakley

What’s scarier than Ghosts and Goblins on Halloween? Five Terrifying Facts about the American Economy

October 31, 2011 By massuniting Leave a Comment

It's Halloween, a day for all things spooky and scary. And while ghouls, ghosts and goblins may be stalking the streets tonight, there is something far scarier afoot in America right now. With millions of people out of work and families … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bank-of-america, economy, Exxon Mobile, jobs, ma-sen, ma-senate, MassUniting, millionaires, scott-brown

The Bank of America Democratic Primary

July 21, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 1 Comment

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. I have spent most of the last decade as New England political director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  I'm proud of my work standing up for working families, hospital patients, senior … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, bank-of-america, democratic-primary, financial-services, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, netroots, pacs, progressive, seiu, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

Hey Mike Barnicle-An Idea For Your Next Story!

September 21, 2009 By smalltownguy Leave a Comment

Bank of America has missed its deadline to turn over documents in the Congressional investigation of the bank's takeover of Merrill Lynch. Rep. Edolphus Towns, chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has asked to meet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: anne-finucne, bank-of-america, crooks-and-liars, mike-barnicle

Bailout Firms continue to spend Millions on Lobbying Congress

April 22, 2009 By woburndem Leave a Comment

All the while you read headlines that the Administration is seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and then you read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30... and we wonder if and when they are going to realize it is a freight train heading … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bail-out, bank-of-america, citibank, geithner, gm, jp-morgan, obama

AIG a watershed or waterloo for President Obama time will tell

March 4, 2009 By woburndem 4 Comments

Yet neither he nor Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner nor President Obama have demanded nor required the dismissal of the leadership of this corporation that is likely to be the key to the financial meltdown. Instead it appears that the fear of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aig, bank-of-america, banking-crisis, citigroup, economic-stimulus, economy, fdic-benrnanke, fed, obama

Ill. Gov. suspends business with Bank of America

December 8, 2008 By midge 18 Comments

Gov. Rod. Blagojevich from Illinois has ordered all state government agencies to suspend business with Bank of America after receiving a $25 billion bailout yet failing to restore the credit to the Republic Window and Doors company in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailout, bank-of-america, labor

Guilty Corporations Fund Hypocritical Anti-Migrant Politicians

October 17, 2007 By kyledeb 2 Comments

As politicians continue to use migrants for their own political purposes, a pattern is emerging.  Migrants are bearing the brunt of their political posturing, while the people that hire and benefit from them go without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bank-of-america, center-for-new-community, credit-cards, home-depot., house-immigration-reform-caucus, human-rights-watch, immigration, lou-dobbs, lowell, migrant, nativism-in-the-house, new-bedford-raid, raising-kaine, smithfield-foods, smithfield-justice, tom-tancredo

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ssteingraber1Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1·
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One of the women now in leg shackles and handcuffs for blockading fossil fuel build-out in Weymouth is Rev. Betsy Sowers, Minister for Earth Justice at Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Here’s what she looks like standing behind the pulpit rather than in front of a judge’s bench https://twitter.com/wendywendy48/status/1204791435423207424

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@ssteingraber1 @CharlieBakerMA Two hours + since arrests occurred and @MassGovernor’s constituent services is unaware that six women currently sit jailed, handcuffed, leg shackled at Quincy District Courthouse.

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CFigueresChristiana Figueres@CFigueres·
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There’s no other option. #Countdown @TED #ClimateEmergency @GlobalOptimism #COP25 @nowthisnews https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1203842446590914560

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‘We have to reduce emissions to 1/2 of what we have by 2030. There’s no other option.’ — The architect of the Paris Agreement has launched a new climate initiative called Countdown

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saidbylaurasaid by laura@saidbylaura·
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Reading: @VanessaLRule's blog post from #COP25. If you are felling inspired to join our growing movement of mothers for bold climate action, head over to @MothersOutFront and say hi! Everyone is needed and everyone is welcome.
https://www.mothersoutfront.org/madrid_cop25_day_2

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ProfStrachanProf Peter Strachan@ProfStrachan·
10 Dec

#ClimateChange: Greenland Ice Melt Accelerating

"The assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period"

#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateEmergency
#EcologicalBreakdown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48387030

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass Group@bluemassgroup·
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The “nihilistic forces” Volcker refers to have taken full ownership of your Republican Party. They are one and the same.

Christine Harper@cr_harper

Paul Volcker's final warning in today's FT: https://www.ft.com/content/2389d7ec-1b3c-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4

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