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RSSGood 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
Great News!
We've Moved
Hi, just got word that the campers are moving from City Garden to Poelker Park. Poelker is located at 13th and Market, across from City Hall. I think this will be the central staging area for the rest of the week, so please plan accordingly.
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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.
The People's Settlement Supporting Organizations
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
www.organizemo.org
St. Louis Instead of War Coalition
www.insteadofwar.org
Catholic Action Network
www.catholicactionnetwork.org
Human Rights Action Service
www.humanrightsaction.net
Grass Roots Organizing
www.gromo.org
CWA-MSWU
cwa6355.org
Show Me No Hate
www.showmenohate.com
TransHaven Missouri
transhaven@transhaven.org
Washington University Co-Op
www.cfu-lc.com
Veterans for Peace-Chapter 61
Peace Economy Project
www.peaceeconomyproject.org
Climate Action St. Louis
climateactionstl.wordpress.com
Organization for Black Struggle
www.obs-onthemove.org
St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee
www.stl-psc.org
Literacy for Social Justice Teachers
www.umsl.edu/~lsjtrg
St. Louis Activist Hub
stlactivisthub.blogspot.com
Justice Institute
Workers International League
Direct Action March 24th - 29th 2010
The Settlement will build off the popular anger over the lack of change, rightly portraying corporations as the major source of the obstruction. Our goal is to combine political theatre, willful direct action, and popular education with community building, undergirded by the will to generate an inclusive progressive movement in Saint Louis. Direct Action Events Include: a “Break Up with Your Bank” day, an action at Bank of America demanding an end to unjust foreclosures, a Public Schools bake sale, guerrilla street theater to raise awareness about LGBTQ discrimination in the health insurance market, a Saint Louis labor history tour and many more. The encampment in downtown Saint Louis will rotate between different corners of the City Garden and other green spaces at 8th and Market, which is across the street from the Bank of America and the Peabody Energy Headquarters. Our core of 25-35 campers will hold our territory, recruit passersby to get involved, and participate in movement-building and direct action activities themselves.
We will kick-off the event on March 24th at 3pm with a “real economy” demonstration in Kiener Plaza. You will find a comprehensive schedule of events attached, including information for the final action, a march of the jobless through downtown Saint Louis.
We believe that this is the first step in building a genuine, broad-based anti-corporate movement in Saint Louis. From issues of local control to clean energy, to peace to jobs to healthcare, we all want an end to the injustice. And we have been working separately for too long—it's time that we stand up and stand together on a united front! Many of us have worked hard on political campaigns attempting to bend the ears of our legislators and it has been to no avail. Why? Because corporate power divides us on every issue and blocks us from effecting real change and legislative action. We hope our work can harness anger endemic in corporate control of our political and economic systems and serve as a rallying cry for similar actions across the nation. It is also noteworthy that for the first time, all of the major federal campaigns--Healthcare, Financial Reform and Immigration--are emphasizing the need for there to be significant, mass movement locally in order to achieve anything meaningful in DC. So join us to "break up with your bank", participate in guerrilla street theater, campout on downtown, demand clean energy and a real economy, or simply raise your voice.
How can you and/or your organization be involved?
Sign-up to coordinate an action!
- Sign-up to recruit protesters, campers or both! We also need over night attendees. This will be a great time for relationship building and coalition building.
- Donate your time, resources or tents!
- Show up with your members, friends and family for the People’s Settlement!
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