Yes We Can Make Wall Street Pay

The Issue

Because of  wrongful and fraudulent actions taken within the subprime mortgage market, which have been detailed in the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCICI) report (http://www.fcic.gov/):

-- millions of  Americans have lost their homes or are in foreclosure proceedings;

-- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, as well as job-related benefits such as health insurance and pensions, and we are now being threatened with the loss of our collective bargaining rights in states across the country;

-- women's livelihoods and reproductive rights are being threatened by impending cuts in state and local jobs, and in funding for family planning, childcare, and home and community-based care;

-- countless businesses have been destroyed or greatly damaged or devalued;

-- investors, from retirees to unions to municipalities to educational institutions, among others, have suffered serious financial losses;

-- dedicated and responsible workers in the financial industry have been manipulated, misled, pink-slipped, and smeared due to the behavior of a criminal minority among them;

-- millions of students have been crowded into larger classrooms, with fewer resources,  forced to withdraw from colleges that their parents can no longer afford, and are now being threatened with cuts in financial aid;

-- the American people have had to endure severe cutbacks in public services – fire protection, health care, police protection, unemployment benefits, environmental protection, and more -- as a result of state budget shortfalls, and continue to be threatened with more such losses. 

Yet very few of those involved in this massive fraud have been charged with a crime!!!  Join us  in demanding that President Obama make all of those responsible for the economic crisis  pay for their crimes., by:

-- gathering all available evidence to call to account all of those responsible;

-- prosecuting all persons determined to have engaged in criminal misconduct to the full extent of the law, and

-- and determining a proper process for assessing liability and mandating payment of reparations to the people damaged by these crimes

Yes We Can Make Wall Street Pay!! 

Organized by the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, www.ussen.org

 

 

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The Issue

Because of  wrongful and fraudulent actions taken within the subprime mortgage market, which have been detailed in the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCICI) report (http://www.fcic.gov/):

-- millions of  Americans have lost their homes or are in foreclosure proceedings;

-- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, as well as job-related benefits such as health insurance and pensions, and we are now being threatened with the loss of our collective bargaining rights in states across the country;

-- women's livelihoods and reproductive rights are being threatened by impending cuts in state and local jobs, and in funding for family planning, childcare, and home and community-based care;

-- countless businesses have been destroyed or greatly damaged or devalued;

-- investors, from retirees to unions to municipalities to educational institutions, among others, have suffered serious financial losses;

-- dedicated and responsible workers in the financial industry have been manipulated, misled, pink-slipped, and smeared due to the behavior of a criminal minority among them;

-- millions of students have been crowded into larger classrooms, with fewer resources,  forced to withdraw from colleges that their parents can no longer afford, and are now being threatened with cuts in financial aid;

-- the American people have had to endure severe cutbacks in public services – fire protection, health care, police protection, unemployment benefits, environmental protection, and more -- as a result of state budget shortfalls, and continue to be threatened with more such losses. 

Yet very few of those involved in this massive fraud have been charged with a crime!!!  Join us  in demanding that President Obama make all of those responsible for the economic crisis  pay for their crimes., by:

-- gathering all available evidence to call to account all of those responsible;

-- prosecuting all persons determined to have engaged in criminal misconduct to the full extent of the law, and

-- and determining a proper process for assessing liability and mandating payment of reparations to the people damaged by these crimes

Yes We Can Make Wall Street Pay!! 

Organized by the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, www.ussen.org

 

 

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Petition created on March 5, 2011