At Senate Hearing, Jamie Dimon confronted by Occupy Our Homes DC

[midnight]

Source: OccupyWallStreet

Occupy Our Homes DC - Wednesday June 13th, five members of Occupy Our Homes DC temporarily silenced former J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon while he stood in front of a Congressional hearing.

Deborah Harris, a disabled former paramedic who lost the title to her home due to J.P. Morgan’s unethical business practices and is now facing eviction, confronted Mr. Dimon over a microphone, asking him to face the thousands of homeowners like herself that are loosing their homes because of his work. She was quickly dragged away while fellow Occupy Our Homes members chanted and loudly accused Mr. Diamond of being a crook.

The protesters, including Ms. Harris, were held in jail for most of the day and by 6:00pm all had been released.

“I told him to face up to the little people, like me, who had saved up for years only to have their homes taken by giants. When they slapped the handcuffs on me, I felt very proud that I was a voice who stood-up.” Deborah Harris, an Organizer with Occupy Our Homes who is facing eviction.



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[Enrique]

1. get rid of that whole useless Committee

and put Deborah Harris up there in their place.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Many of the Committee members own stock in JP Morgan Chase. Can

you say "Skanks R Us?"

[KurtNYC]

7. Not stock, straight cash

The Cost Of The Best Senate Banking Committee JP Morgan Can Buy: $877,798 In Bribes (campaign contributions)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cost-best-senate-banking-committee-jp-morgan-can-buy-877798-bribes

[coalition_unwilling]

8. Their financial disclosure reports reveal that many of them also

own stock (through mutual funds in many cases but also in trusts) in the very company over which they exercise oversight.

Sorry, I don't have the link readily available but I saw it yesterday on DU.

[wordpix]

10. these a-hats should recuse themselves from the committee if they own JPM stock or got campaign $

from JPM

[coalition_unwilling]

12. Careful or you'll be dismissed as an "Occupy Fetishist" - n/t

[goclark]

6. I OCCUPIED the Oil WELLS Meeting

That's the way for all of us to do it!

Instead of just writing letters
~ be heard!

Ms. goclarkOBAMA attended a Presentation by one of the major Oil Companies last week. It took place in Culver City, CA. June 12th -- do a google,

There were at least 450 people attending ~ all of them MAD as hell about the unregulated drilling taking place in Culver City/Los Angeles -- near OUR community.

People were picketing with signs that said STOP THE FRACKING NOW!
Some signs saying more descriptive that even that ~ everyone was MAD AS HELL!


I was one of the speakers that STOOD UP ( more than 30 of us) after the phony presentation by the big oil company ~ we STOOD UP!

When MsgoclarkOBAMA got that mike, she gave them a BIG PIECE of RAGE!

During my RANT to them and after I finished, my fellow protesters were CHEERING and CLAPPING for me ~ the OIL THUGS had red faces and could not believe that 5'1 little goclarkOBAMA had socked it to them!

OCCUPY! OCCUPY their space and tell them like I did---
WE ARE SICK from FRACKING/CRACKING and your unregulated pumping and we are SICK of You and your Haliburton Buddies!

We will not rest until we shut you down!

[wordpix]

11. & last night at my local Wetlands Comm., I told them if the gas co. application is approved, they

would be complicit in illegally filling wetlands, since the gas co. needs 1.5' of gravel and fill over the 1950s fill that is already there. The gas co. wants to put in TWO 30K gal. gas tanks, a driveway turnaround, and an office bldg., all on 0.9 ac. of 1957 fill surrounded by a large wetland. "But it's not in the flood zone, according to FEMA," my ass!

[goclark]

16. That's the way to do it!

MsgoclarkOBAMA is going to start a new Post in GD.

Look for me and put your encouraging remarks there too - we MUST OCCUPY their SPACE!

[freshwest]

17. +1,000,000! Thanks goclarks!

[midnight]

22. Wow... This is so awesome to read... Thank you for standing up and giving them a big piece of

rage....

[midnight]

13. Thanks for posting this pic... It really shows how similar we all are, and that

no one, corporation should have so much while so many have so little....

[goclark]

23. I like her style

When I looked at her I realized that I did just what she did.

She OCCUPIED his SPACE! See what I did to the Oil Company Reps when I got in their face and made them look like idiots.


I want to shout this to the Roof Tops of DU, follow the lead of our OCCUPY
Brave warriors against the 1% ~ Get in their face and stand your ground for what we believe in.

Recall when the Democratic Demonstrators stood on the bridge in front of RMoney . Twenty "Supporters" probably paid to listen.

Rmoney jumped on his BusCadillac and ran for cover.

They really OCCUPIED Rmoney's SPACE!

OCCUPY,OCCUPY, OCCUPY their space!

[mbperrin]

2. Speaking truth is a crime, and stealing peoples' money, homes and dreams

is richly rewarded.

What a country.

Not in a good way.

[midnight]

24. Then we need to step away from faith based voting machines.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10843782

[mbperrin]

27. Sure. I'd support a big bonfire with the machines and those who sell them on the pile.

But I had a bad childhood, so I have bad thoughts.

[coalition_unwilling]

4. It's not like the Dems on the Committee might actually

stand up for homeowners, small investors or credit card holders.

[EFerrari]

5. Amy had video this morning:

JPMorgan Chase CEO Gets Warm Hill Welcome from Senators Flooded with Millions in Wall St. Donations

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/14/jpmorgan_chase_ceo_gets_warm_hill

[midnight]

14. So Jimmy DeMint doesn't feel the need to judge Jamie because Jimmy and his Washington

buddies loose two billion a day and will continue to do that? OMG but the poor are responsible for the huge deficit problem in this country?

[wordpix]

26. dittos, DeMint should be grilled about "losing" $2 billion/day - WTF?

After paying the taxes I do on my lower=middle income while Exxon Mobil and Rmoney pay 15% income tax, I'd really like to know where this $2 billion/day is lost.

[wordpix]

25. thanks for that, am trying to get the picture of JPM

[jtuck004]

9. I wonder how many tens of thousands of dollars he made while she prattled on? n/t

[jtuck004]

15. Jun 14, 2012 - - Foreclosures up for first time in 27 months - -

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreclosure starts rose year-over-year in May for the first time in more than two years as banks resumed dealing with distressed properties after a mortgage abuse settlement earlier this year, data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
The $25 billion settlement between major banks and states, formally approved in April, had been expected to jump-start foreclosure proceedings that were previously stalled by uncertainty about the liability of banks.

Oh, that's what the elected officials were doing. Greasing the skids.

I can't understand why there weren't 12 million protesters asking why their loans are underwater and this guy gets a pass? Elected officials seem to have given several of the big "investment parlors" (banks is what THEY want you to call them) a pass on the fraud and barely a nod to their crimes. And a lot of money, supported and generated by taxpayers.

People have died and tens of millions are out of jobs, perhaps out of a life. The country was wounded and needs the government to reassert itself like it did the last time.

That's us.

So we are having hearings. Wow, now that's powerful.

I wish her luck.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. The sad part about them going to jail is, Jamie Demon is the criminal in need of prison time

[Uncle Joe]

19. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, midnight.

[lsewpershad]

20. Why is this guy

not yet in jail????

[xocet]

21. Meanwhile, Tim DeChristopher is still in prison...

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