The report below was submitted by the VoteNoBailout campaign. The VoteNoBailout.org website has attracted extensive support throughout the country. Over 300,000 letters were sent through the website to Congress since the campaign was launched just over a week ago.
The anger of the people was expressed outside of the Capitol Building in a demonstration called by VoteNoBailout.org. Participants included homeowners facing foreclosure, community activists, civil rights groups, trade unionists and anti-war coalitions. The spirited demonstration received a large amount of media coverage from U.S. and international media.
The organizers said that the big bankers and corporate thieves, working through the leaders of the Republican and Democratic Parties, are bribing and coercing elected officials so that they will vote for the Grand Theft Bailout that gives $700 billion of tax-payers’ money to the biggest banks. More than 200,000 letters have been sent through VoteNoBailout.org to Congress. Speakers demanded an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. The people marched to Congressional offices chanting “Bailout the people, not the banks.”
Participants in the People’s Speak Out included VoteNoBailout.org, ANSWER Coalition, ImpeachBush.org, Empower DC, NACA (the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America) and others.
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