Firm Commentary:  Has the rage and frustration of citizens with MEGA banks and corporations begun to congeal in California as in New York?  The attached presser details planned foreclosure protests around the bay area.  How and when will we begin to see a grassroots movement in the epicenter of the mortgage meltdown....the Southland?  

Something disruptive needs to happen or the status quo will remain.  On the mortgage side:  The HAMP has been a failure, our Congress refuses to pass BK cramdown, the state legislature has not revamp the non-judicial foreclosure statute, most attorneys general are seeking to give banks a slap on the wrist despite widespread robosigning fraud and the Courts remain biased against homeowners in financial distress.  To say our system of government has been infected and highjacked by excessive financial influence is not news; nor is it to say our Court's have been flooded with phony and fabricated documents and attestations.

The last time I checked...the U.S. Constitution begins "We the People"...not "We the shareholders".  A democratic government is supposed to be an extension of the citizenry, not a facilitator of casino capitalism.  The financial industry's subtle infection of our political system mirrors the subtle extraction of wealth from our economy...billions of small transaction fees at a time. 

But protests are messy and require selflessness and activism is time consuming and unentertaining...are  Southern Californians really to the point that they will stand up and oppose our new corporatocracy?  Or if the NFL and reality TV still too compelling to ignore?

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CALL TO ACTION: Make the Banks Pay! OAKLAND & SAN FRANCISCO, CA

MONDAY (9/26/2011) & WEDNESDAY (9/28/2011), NOON: FORECLOSURE

DEMONSTRATION AT THE ALAMEDA COUNTY COURTHOUSE AT FALLON

STREET (AT LAKE MERRITT) IN OAKLKAND

MONDAY AFTERNOON: OCO DIVESTMENT AT THE BANKS AT LAKE

MERRITT AREA IN OAKLAND

It's Time to Make Banks Pay!

Big Banks helped to crash our economy, destroy our communities and wreck

our budgets.

Now they are back to record profits & bonuses while we are forced to pay for

the mess they helped to create!

And the days preceding...

Join us, as community groups, students, workers, faith leaders and others

come together for a Week of Action to stop playing defense and start going

on the offense to say:

It's time for Big Banks and Large Corporations to Pay Up!

During the week of September 26th-29th we will hold a series of actions and

mobilizations to:

- remind us all that it was Big Banks and Large Corporations and NOT

working people and students who have helped to collapse our economy

- insert the real solutions needed into the debate, and

- set the stage for the 2012 budget fight and election season so that

politicians and candidates have to choose which side are they on: Wall

Street or Our Street?

Some of us are dedicating full or half days, Mon - Wed September 26th-

28th when we will have action squads blitzing points of interest in various

financial centers of Oakland and SF. Others are just coming out for the big

day on September 29th. Attached is a flyer and sign-up form. Below is a

version you can fill in right now and e-mail back to us.

How you can participate:

1. Have your organization participate in the Week of Action (see form

attached)

2. Invite your members or network to our Facebook page:

Join us to divest and Move Our Money out of the

big banks and kick off the week of actions!

Bank of America and Wells Fargo executives are

attending the Bay Area Council meeting at AT&T

Park - join us to meet them at their private

entrance and ask them to keep our families Safe

at Home!

Tired of Bank Blight? Join us to Clean Up

and we'll take the blight back to its owners

- the Banks!

Stop the Banks from selling our homes.

Para empezar, junta con nosotros a quitar nuestro

dinero de los bancos grandes.

Los jefes de Banco de America y Wells Fargo van

a la junta del Concilio del la Area de La Bahia en

el Parque AT&T - vamonos a juntar con ellos!

Estamos cansados de la basura en nuestra

communidad - la vamos a regresar a sus

dueños - ¡los bancos!

Paramos que los bancos venden nuestras

casas.