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721 Members Say It’s Time to Make Banks Pay

UPDATE: WATCH a video of the Make Banks Pay Rally here!
SEIU 721 members joined more than a thousand homeowners and community members as part of ReFund California to march through the Los Angeles Financial District.

The large group of activists demanded that Wall Street Banks start paying their fair share and stop destroying our communities, forcing us out of our homes, and devastating state and county budgets causing
cuts to essential services and high unemployment.

March participants entered the lobby of the Bank Of America branch at Figueroa and 7th Street and refused to leave. Outside of the bank, more than a thousand people occupied the intersection chanting “Make Banks Pay.”

721 members played an integral role in making the “Make Banks Pay!” Week of Action a success. Members participated in several actions outside bank executives’ homes and offices, and disrupted a California Bankers Association meeting, as covered in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. Members also stormed local Fannie Mae offices to help Rose Gudiel, a ReFund California and SEIU-ULTCW member fighting to protect her family home from foreclosure.

Gudiel ended the rally by announcing that Fannie Mae contacted her to express that they are ready to discuss a modification for her loan and cancelled the family’s eviction from their La Puente home.

 


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“Today was an example of what happens when union and community members unite. Together we can accomplish more. I am ready to take the momentum of today back to Ventura County and continue fighting for a fair economy for all”
Grace Sepulveda, Oxnard Client Benefits Specialist II and 721 E-Board Member

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“It’s time for banks and big corporations to pay their fair share and be held accountable for what they have done to our economy. When we stand together like we did today,we can not be ignored” David Green, LA County Social Worker and LACERA Board Member





0 responses to “721 Members Say It’s Time to Make Banks Pay

  1. Very good acction this the power and this power are in the union, the power is increase, we need more member participation, and more education, promotion this envent in the telphone to robocot.Sorry
    I write little English.
    David Green and cooworker , we need to continuing.

    Mariana

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    awesome, awesome turn out.
    Recommend for a commercial on behalf of Pres. B. Obama and what the people and he stands for. POW!