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Occupy Atlanta and Occupy Our Homes calls for a nationwide day of action against Chase Bank on Tuesday.
We are calling for a day of action against Chase on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 to demand a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. March 13th is the birthday of Jamie Dimon, the CEO of Chase Bank.
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March 13 is now the second day of a week of planned actions against TBTF banks including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and US Bank. The week of actions was inspired by Occupy Atlanta and Occupy Glen Iris to mark Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon’s birthday with a protest of the bank’s criminal foreclosure practices.
Here is the nationwide list of bank actions scheduled for next week.
March 12: Occupy the Crime Scene – County Recorder’s Office – Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Petaluma, Occupy Sacramento
March 13: Chase— Occupy Atlanta & Occupy Detroit, along with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs
March 14: US Bank— Occupy Minneapolis and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC)
March 15: Bank of America— Occupy Wall Street
March 16: Wells Fargo— Occupy groups across California, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
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One shining example of the predatory practices of Chase Bank is its treatment of Atlanta’s Pittman family.
Eloise Pittman was given a predatory loan on a home that she and her family have lived in for over 50 years. She passed away in November, and her family is facing eviction. Since December 6th, 404 Glen Iris has been occupied in an effort to stop eviction.
The protest against Chase Bank in Atlanta has been relentless because it epitomizes the criminal insanity of a banking system gone delirious with greed.
Occupy Atlanta is one of many Occupy groups participating in this nationwide struggle against JPMorgan Chase, a corporation that treats the general public as no more than means to the ends of profit. Like many hardworking individuals across the nation, the late Ms. Eloise Pittman was victimized by predatory lending.
From the January 27 Occupy Atlanta protest at Glen Iris:
It’s the bankers and politicians who commit these crimes against humanity, that deserve to be thrown into the street.
NOT THE PITTMAN FAMILY.
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Occupy Delaware, encamped in the shadow of Chase Bank’s corportate offices in Wilmington, will be participating in a dual action on March 13th, one outside the Chase Bank building in which U.S. Senator Thomas Carper has is Wilmington office (no conflict of interest here). Here’s the sign facing the City/County building that spells out Chase Bank’s inhuman practices.
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Artwork by Andy Flack
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Rec’d; thanks, ghost.
No Citigroup, though? (Or my eyes aren’t seeing it.) You’ll love the tar outta this one. Pandit got an almost $15-million ‘pay package’ in ’11 for doing such great work the banks made $11 billion in profit.
Thanks Wendy. Not enough days in the week to target all the TBTF banks.
The success of Citi and the other behemoths depends on local sheriffs to foreclose and sell swindled properties as fast as they can. If we throw a wrench into those plans, Citi and the rest won’t be partying so heartily.
Chase Bank sucks. A couple of years ago, I was really happy to receive a Chase Bank pre-loaded credit card, because I was going to visit my family in Seattle, and, to get a sandwich on the plane, I needed a credit card. Let’s see, in celebration, I got coffee at Starbucks in the Nashville airport, I believe, and then on the plane I got the usual seven dollar sandwich or something. In all, I spent about fourteen dollars.
Then, I started getting Chase Bank notices, claiming that my checking account was overdrawn. I do not have a checking account, and I have never been inside a Chase Bank. In all, after basically chewing my own arm off like an animal in a trap, the sandwich and coffee ended up costing me around two hundred dollars.
I cannot even imagine the Chase Bank antics around mortgages, but it’s gotta be epic, something that makes you go, like, What the actual fuck.
Thanks, ghost.
Mason and I are having an argument. He says, “I told you not to get that credit card. I told they were thieves.”
And I’m saying, “I never knew there were thieves like this, I never saw them even in prison. Who steals two hundred dollars from a poor person? Who does that?!”
Comes the reply: “Honey. Read David Dayen’s article.”
So, I’m gonna read that, about some serious thieving, I suspect.
The bosom buddies of the asshat in the White House, for starters.
Everyone, share your tales of Chase defilement here.
For clarity, I had pre-loaded twenty-five dollars on that card, spent fourteen of it, then started receiving notices.
The irony of this all is there is a big Chase ad on this diary trying to “help people avoid foreclosure.”
What a coincidence. Read David Dayan’s post to see the scam that BoA is working. It can be taken for granted that Chase is doing the same thing.
Delaware Senator Carper has been in power far too long. He is as corrupt, if not more so than the banks. Carper is an elected Delaware public servant, working for the 1% not he 99%…
Matt Taibbi: Bank of America is a “raging hurricane of theft and fraud” (fthebanks.org)
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from reddit.
Sorry, here is the link:
http://fthebanks.org/matt-taibbi-on-bank-of-america/
Bought-and-paid-for Tom Carper. He makes a mockery of the Democratic party in Delaware. His only concern is the well-being of those in the penthouse suites of the Chase building in which he is allowed to hang his hat. Tool.
right on.