Labor & Employment Law

Join Us Today to Make Wall Street Pay!

By Mike Hall

If you’re not already on your way to New York City to join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and 10,000 union and community activists as they march on Wall Street’s Big Banks this afternoon, it’s not too late to join the call for real Wall Street reform.

You still can be part of the more than 13,000-strong virtual marchers to let the Big Banks know its time to pay to restore the millions of jobs their reckless practices destroyed and to let Congress know that working Americans will settle for nothing less than real Wall Street Reform. Click here to join the virtual march. And click here to send your friends a Facebook invite to the virtual march and rally.

You also will be able to follow all the action live right here on the Web, via Twitter and text messaging. We will webcast the rally and march live at www.aflcio.org/wallstreet, and while the events unfold, we’ll also scroll the names of the virtual marchers?so keep an eye out for yours.

As Trumka writes at The Huffington Post this morning:

Our message is simple: Big Banks tanked our economy and took our money when they needed a bailout. Now they’re thumbing their noses at our communities but making billions in profits. It’s time they pay up.

The day’s actions start with a 4 p.m. EDT rally at New York’s City Hall, followed by a march down Broadway through the financial district and past Wall Street’s biggest players in the economic debacle that has left the nation with an 11-million jobs deficit.

Along with our coverage, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan will broadcast his daily 4 p.m. show from a booth at the rally site.

If you are away from a computer or television, you can still be connected. Just text MARCH to 225568 to get updates. If you are at the rally and march, text RALLY to 225568 to stay in the loop. You also can keep abreast of the action with our live Twitter feed via the hashtag #bankshowdown.

Check back here later today and we’ll let you know how you can take more action to build support for Wall Street reform via text messaging.

Join us today and take our message to Wall Street banks and the Republican senators blocking Wall Street reform legislation.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).