Michael White and Carolyn McIntyre came to Alternative Banking on Feb. 1st to describe their work fighting efforts to shrink the public library systems in NYC. Hear Citizens Defending Libraries” talk here. The group was formed almost two years ago in Continue reading Listen to Citizens Defending Libraries — Feb. 1st Talk.
Listen to the “Affordable Housing” talk here or click here to review the power point from Jan 25’s pre-meet. And access other reports discussed in the talk by going to the affordable housing tab under projects..
Totally Required Reading In preparation I’m asking you, if possible, to do some advance reading — it’s not really required! Above all, the following two items: Being Greek and an Economist While Greece Burns: An intimate account In November 2013, Continue reading After the Greek Elections: The Future of Austerity in Greece, Europe & Beyond
We are planning a mid-week meeting to consider upgrades/clean-ups of the website, and also provide training to Altbankers interested in helping maintain the site and/or adding content. We have a list of names of interested people from the last meeting, Continue reading Website Revamp Meeting
https://www.popularresistance.org/fracking-boom-collapsing-threatening-economy/ Fracking Boom Collapsing, Threatening Economy Vladimir Putin at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting- Davos, 2009. (Photo: World Economic Forum) As Congress removes restrictions on taxpayers bailing out the too-big-to-fail banks, the right is blaming environmentalists and Russia f
******************************************************************************** Thursday December 18th, 2014 – 11am To keep Warren’s momentum going, we’re going to Citigroup HQ this Thursday at 11am to show that we’ve had enough and to call on Congress to break up the “too big to fail” Continue reading Calendar Of Actions, Meetings and Upcoming Events
[Note: this was written in April 2013. It’s too late to attend that protest but all of the grievances are still present (alas) so you can probably join us this April. Stay tuned.] YES, WE WILL! PICKET CITIGROUP SHAREHOLDERS’ ANNUAL Continue reading Why Are We Picketing at the Citigroup Shareholders’ Meeting?
During the last meeting, there was a great discussion about the prison complex and private companies (CCA and GEO) that benefit from it. The point was made that we might be supporting it without knowing it through our retirement funds. Continue reading Prison Complex and Private Companies that Benefit from it
April 21, 2014 Two filmmakers traveled from Germany to Wall Street to award the “Public Eye Award” to Goldman Sachs for Irresponsible Behavior in Finance and Economics We are here today to deliver the 2013 Public Eye Award to Goldman Continue reading Goldman Sachs Wins “Public Eye Award” for Irresponsible Behavior in Finance and Economics
I thought Sunday’s discussion was very productive and moved the event planning forward. I’ll post my notes from that discussion here when I’ve written them up (not going to happen today). One possible site that sounded good for the event Continue reading Planning for September Ethics event