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...]
Coakley to Big Banks: It’s On!
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...]
What’s scarier than Ghosts and Goblins on Halloween? Five Terrifying Facts about the American Economy
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...]
The Bank of America Democratic Primary
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...]
Hey Mike Barnicle-An Idea For Your Next Story!
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...]
Bailout Firms continue to spend Millions on Lobbying Congress
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...]
AIG a watershed or waterloo for President Obama time will tell
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...]
Ill. Gov. suspends business with Bank of America
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...]
Guilty Corporations Fund Hypocritical Anti-Migrant Politicians
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...]