'Anti-K Street' protest snarls traffic in downtown Washington

[laughingliberal]

A few hundred protesters snarled traffic on K Street on Monday and shut down a Bank of America near Capitol Hill as part of an "anti-K Street" protest sponsored by a coalition of community groups and labor unions. In the rain, members of the National People's Action network and an array of unions marched down the street behind a float depicting a large, sinister-looking bald banker holding the U.S. Capitol on puppet strings.

"We've come here to bust up big banks. It's high time someone held them accountable," said Eugene Barnes, board president of National People's Action, which helped organize the march in concert with the Service Employees International Union, the AFL-CIO and Jobs With Justice.

The protests were part of a several days of marches targeting bankers and lobbyists in their homes and offices, Barnes said. The same group stood on the lawn Sunday at what protesters said was the Chevy Chase home of Bank of America's general counsel. After Monday's march on K Street, some went to lobby on Capitol Hill in favor of financial regulatory reform.

Organizers dubbed the series of protests "Showdown in America."

More at link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/17/AR2010051702537.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Listened to Thom Hartman interview one of the leaders today

Sounded like an awesome action!

[Mithreal]

2. +1

[laughingliberal]

3. He posted it in political videos for those who missed it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x465985

[saracat]

4. Wouldn't it be nice if they got the same attention as the teabaggers?

[Echo In Light]

6. +1000

[Bitwit1234]

7. You are correct

could not find anything about it on the news. Maybe we should start bombarding CNN and MSNBC as to why the tea bags are more important and triple the amount of people at a protest don't count IF THEY AREN'T TEA BAGS.

[tom_paine]

9. Been tried many times over many different M$M censored items. M$M corruption & hypocrisy is

bottomless in it's depths.

Bottom Line: Corporations ONLY hear other corporations, and the Teabaggers were formed and are controlled (albeit with "Plausible Deniability" required by ALL Bushiganda PsyOps) by Corporations.

In America, no one can hear you scream...unless you're a corporation or your story is going to help corporations sell more useless crap.

[cornermouse]

5. K & R

[freddie mertz]

8. K & R. An important story. Thanks...