Rallies Across the United States Target Banks

[Omaha Steve]

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Submitted by Jesse Russell on April 28, 2010 - 1:39pm
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All week the Service Employees International Union has been rolling out rallies across the country calling for serious Wall Street reform. In San Francisco on Tuesday hundreds gathered outside of a Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. On Wednesday the target was a Bank of America shareholders meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the second day of pressure on Bank of America as Tuesday saw nearly 200 hundred marchers show up in front of the company’s Kansas City offices to hand off a letter asking executives to modify loans for families, cease investment in payday loans, and to support the creation of a federal Consumer Protection agency. SEIU Missouri/Kansas State Council president Sherwin Carroll said the message needs to be passed on to relatives and neighbors:

: We have got to stop letting big banks take our money…

Rosie Partridge is a small business owner who traveled to Kansas City from Wall Lake, Iowa and she had a message for politicians:

: They need to listen to us rather than listen to the big money….