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NEWSROOM
Press Releases and Advisories
NOV 16 PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds of Taxpayers Converge on Goldman Sachs DC Headquarters (PDF)
NOV 16 NPA Letter to Geithner and the Treasury (PDF)
NOV 16 Letter to Goldman Sachs (PDF)
OCT 28 Showdown in Chicago is Over, But Not the Fight (PDF)
OCT 27 5,000 Converge on American Bankers Association Convention (PDF)
Showdown News Articles
DEC 11 Pushing a People's Agenda - Bill Moyers Journal
DEC 11 Bankers Beware - Bill Moyers Journal
DEC 10 Protecting Ourselves, Until Congress Heeds the Call, By George Goehl - Huffington Post
DEC 3 Bernie Sanders Fights to Block Bernanke Confirmation - The Nation
NOV 18 Charitable Capitalism - The Nation
NOV 18 $500 Million and Apology From Goldman - New York Times
NOV 18 Unions Get Snarky with Big Banks - ABC News
NOV 17 Obama creates task force targeting fraud linked to financial crisis - LA Times, Nov 17
NOV 16 Protesters lash out at Goldman - Financial Times, Nov 16
NOV 16 Protesters Converge On Goldman's Washington Office - Wall Street Journal
NOV 16 Secretary Geithner: Is the Average American Too Small To Help? - Huffington Post
NOV 16 Andy Stern: Time to Put Country over Company - SEIU Blog
NOV 17 WEBCAST: Financial Reform for America - The Aspen Institute
NOV 12 Bah! Humbug! Goldman says no to Christmas party - Crain's New York
NOV 1 Quieren salvar su casa del embargo (Spanish) - La Raza
OCT 27 5,000 Converge On American Bankers Association Convention - Reuters
OCT 26 Enough is Enough - Huffington Post
OCT 26 Will the Showdown in Chicago Live Up to Progressive Hype? - OpEdNews
OCT 25 Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Crash Bankers Convention - Huffington Post
OCT 22 George Goehl on Huffington: Creating a 'Which Side Are You On' Moment, - Huffington Post
OCT 21 Chicago Countdown Continues! Massive Protest to Fight Bank Abuse - New Deal 2.0
OCT 21 Is Your Blood Boiling at the Big Bankers? Go to Chicago - Huffington Post
OCT 21 Big banks draw lots of interest - Politico
OCT 19 Big financial firms losing power on Capitol Hill - Washington Post
OCT 17 Time to Take on the Banks - Huffington Post
OCT 19 Financial Reform Victory? You can't reform vampires and zombies - New Deal 2.0
OCT 18 Won't You Please Come to Chicago? - Huffington Post
Financial Reform: Up To Us To Change The Game, Campaign for America's Future
The Deification of Gentle Ben, The Nation
Federal Reserve visit to Decatur pays dividends, Herald Review
Fed Urged To Do More To Protect Homeowners
Reports & Maps
• Chicago Foreclosure Map (2009)
• Financial Industry Invests Heavily in Key Lawmakers, Public Citizen (PDF)
• Individual bank and state reports (internal link)
• The Trillion Dollar Bank Job (SEIU Illinois)
• Roadblock To Recovery (Woodstock Institute)
• Andrew Cuomo's Big Bank Bonus Report - No Rhyme or Reason, 2008
• 2008 Chicago Foreclosure Report (PDF)
• Truth About Wells Fargo (PDF)
• GAO Report On Fair Lending (PDF)
• Wall Street and the Making of the Subprime Disaster (PDF)
Related News
« Don't Fail, Or Reward Success, New York Times (October 13)
« Good Billions After Bad, Vanity Fair (October 2009)
« Class Action Suit Accuses Wells Fargo of Discrimination by Neighborhood, Washington Independent (September 9)
SHOWDOWN VIDEOS
Bill Moyers Journal - December 11, 2009
George Goehl of National People's Action (NPA) and Heather Booth of Americans for Financial Reform join Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL to explain why people are angry with the banks, and what they believe community groups can change across the country and in Washington, D.C.
Banker's Ball Protest, Showdown in Chicago, October 25, 2009
Goldman Sachs Action - November 16, 2009
GRITtv - October 28, 2009
Showdown in Chicago protests this week attempted to attract attention to the conference, where bankers attended panels with titles like "Strategies for Acquiring Troubled Banks," "NonInterest Income," and "Unwinding Government Intervention," along with a keynote speech by Newt Gingrich.
Democracy Now! - October 26, 2009
GRITtv - September 30, 2009
James Mumm, Organizing Director at the National People's Action, Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, and Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, discuss why the economy hasn’t been “fixed” and Wall Street is celebrating. Mumm also talks about what is happening to our communities on the ground since the bail out and how Americans are gearing up for the Showdown in Chicago.
SHOWDOWN PODCASTS & RADIO
This podcast features one group of people headed from the Northwest Bronx in New York to Chicago and the perspective of National People’s Action Executive Director George Goehl. (Produced on October 12 by Pro Media Communications)
Save the American Dream campaign director, Jordan Estevao talks with Thomas White of Business Matters on the topic of big banks and bailouts. (Produced on October 5)
Iowa Public Radio podcast featuring Des Moines resident and Iowa CCI member, Ferol Wegner, talking about the Showdown in Chicago. (Produced on October 27)
RESOURCE VIDEOS
Money as Debt II - Promises Unleashed
Money as Debt II Explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT...and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.
Money as Debt I
Paul Grignon's animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States. (Length: 47-min)