To: Eric Holder, Attorney General
Stand with homeowners risking arrest to end Too Big to Jail
Home Defenders League
I stand with hundreds of homeowners and foreclosure fighters risking arrest in peaceful civil disobedience on May 20 at the Department of Justice. I support their demand that Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama hold Wall Street criminals accountable by prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our economy.
Why is this important?
Since 2008 not one banker has gone to jail for destroying the economy, stealing our homes, our wealth, and our secure future. After years of resisting evictions, marching on big banks, delivering hundreds of thousands of petition signatures and even a popular movement like Occupy Wall Street, thousands of people have gone to jail for demanding accountability. But not one banker.
It’s time to go directly to DC and interrupt business as usual.
Hundreds of homeowners, foreclosure victims and allies will converge on Washington DC from May 18-23 and engage in dramatic action at the Department of Justice, holding the Obama Administration accountable for not being willing to jail any bankers. They are planning a host of powerful events for the entire week including non-violent civil disobedience.
The latest outrage was in April when some 4 million families whose homes were stolen by Wall Street criminals in 2009 and 2010 started getting a total of $3.6 billion in compensation. Most will receive less than $1000. For losing their homes. That doesn’t even count the $12.8 trillion [1] that the greed and recklessness of Wall Street criminals cost our economy since 2008 or the $3 trillion [2] we spent propping up big banks.
If our system of justice worked, two things should have happened: (1) those responsible should have been prosecuted for their crimes, and (2) borrowers should have been compensated for these violations. Instead AG Holder and the DOJ have given the bankers get out of jail free cards and federal regulators have allowed them to pay pennies on the dollar to people who lost their homes. That's what happens with Too Big to Jail.
So we’re taking things right to the doorsteps of the decision-makers in DC.
Stand with those going to DC to risk arrest through peaceful civil disobedience by signing on to the petition. We can guarantee your signature will be delivered to the very heart of law enforcement in the United States.
We can’t wait for justice any longer. We’re going to DC. And we’ve got Too Big to Jail in our sights.
[1] http://bettermarkets.com/sites/default/files/Cost%20of%20the%20Crisis%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
[2] http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/
It’s time to go directly to DC and interrupt business as usual.
Hundreds of homeowners, foreclosure victims and allies will converge on Washington DC from May 18-23 and engage in dramatic action at the Department of Justice, holding the Obama Administration accountable for not being willing to jail any bankers. They are planning a host of powerful events for the entire week including non-violent civil disobedience.
The latest outrage was in April when some 4 million families whose homes were stolen by Wall Street criminals in 2009 and 2010 started getting a total of $3.6 billion in compensation. Most will receive less than $1000. For losing their homes. That doesn’t even count the $12.8 trillion [1] that the greed and recklessness of Wall Street criminals cost our economy since 2008 or the $3 trillion [2] we spent propping up big banks.
If our system of justice worked, two things should have happened: (1) those responsible should have been prosecuted for their crimes, and (2) borrowers should have been compensated for these violations. Instead AG Holder and the DOJ have given the bankers get out of jail free cards and federal regulators have allowed them to pay pennies on the dollar to people who lost their homes. That's what happens with Too Big to Jail.
So we’re taking things right to the doorsteps of the decision-makers in DC.
Stand with those going to DC to risk arrest through peaceful civil disobedience by signing on to the petition. We can guarantee your signature will be delivered to the very heart of law enforcement in the United States.
We can’t wait for justice any longer. We’re going to DC. And we’ve got Too Big to Jail in our sights.
[1] http://bettermarkets.com/sites/default/files/Cost%20of%20the%20Crisis%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
[2] http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/