Laclede Gas Stinks

Thank you FOX 2 for reporting on the Laclede Gas protest on Thursday March 25, 2010.

Student Life Covers the People's Settlement!

Dozens of students and local community members pitched tents and camped out in downtown St. Louis Wednesday night to kick off a series of demonstrations aimed at rallying the community to stand up against corporate power.

The People’s Settlement is a five-day event in which participants camp out at Poelker Park at night and participate in demonstrations during the day on issues ranging from LBGT rights to environmental ethics.

Read the full story here.

StudLife also interviewed a number of students and organizers at the event:

Give Us Rights Not Just Gas

Our action this morning at Laclede Group which owns Laclede Gas was a huge success! We had about 35 protesters brave the cold rainy St. Louis weather to stand outside 720 Olive Street. Our message was clear, "We Want Full Equality and Protection Mr. Yaeger!"

Today's action is finished but it is not forgotten. We are asking the community to call the Chief Executive Officer Mr. Yaeger's office, (314) 342-0500. Leave a message for Mr. Yaeger that his company needs to update it's Employee Policies to protect his LGBT workers.

It is that simple.

We are asking to meet with Mr. Yaeger and gave him notice today, we ask you do the same. The next time you send in your Laclede Gas Bill, please include a brief message that you are not happy with their anti-gay policies. Also remind them that if we had a choice, we cancel their gas services and go with less bigoted one.

But we can't, because Laclede Gas is our only choice!

Give us Rights Not Just Gas!

Great News!

Good news! Angie Lathrop, National Office of Community Affairs for Bank of America, contacted MORE and promised to come from Washington D.C. to St. Louis to meet with local housing counselings to discuss their servicing practices!

We got great coverage for the first day! We also have quite a few folks doing their own coverage! Pictures and YouTube videos are being posted on Facebook also, which is great! Thanks so much for everyone's work.

Great video from David May:


Here are a couple of links to stories:

http://www.peoplesworld.org/tired-of-bank-greed-missouri-protesters-say/

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=198690&catid=3

http://www.kmox.com/Protestors-demand-Bank-of-America-freeze-foreclosu/6651464

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/03/group_plans_corporate_and_government_protests_in_st_louis_this_week.php

Video from Bank of America Lobby

Following up on the previous post, here's some video from inside the lobby of Bank of America. Protesters went inside and called for Jack Shackett, Bank of America's Credit Loss Mitigations Strategies Executive, to come out and speak to two people whose houses are being foreclosed. Bank of America, after the economic crises causes by banks, was bailed out with of billions of dollars of taxpayer money, yet is continuing to take peoples homes at a staggering rate. You'd think a company that received that much help from the taxpayers would show a little compassion.



Protesters occupied the lobby for nearly an hour before returning to the People's Settlement at the Citygarden.

Bank of America Action a Success!