The Showdown in Chicago ..... The People vs. The Banksters

[marmar]

http://www.showdowninchicago.org/index.html



Schedule of Events

Note: all times are approximate and subject to change
If you wish to join us at the Showdown, please fill out a Showdown Inquiry Form


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009

3:30pm – Orientation

4:30pm - Welcoming & Kick Off "Put People First: Showdown in Chicago"
Hundreds of everyday Americans come together to launch the Showdown in Chicago. A peoples’ Commission will hear testimony and evidence from everyday Americans, well known public figures, and elected officials on how Wall Street banks created the foreclosure crisis and sent the economy into a tailspin. Commission findings will be shared with the Obama Administration, Members of Congress, and the Angelides Commission.

7:30pm – Dinner
Break bread with community leaaders from all across the country.



MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009

8:00am - What's Broken and How We Can Fix It
This training and education session will discuss the economic crisis and how the big banks’ greedy behavior led our economy straight into disaster ultimately causing millions of foreclosures, joblessness and decreased pensions. The session will also address common-sense solutions and what ordinary people can do to raise the stakes on financial reform back in their communities.

9:30am - Gathering of all attendees

9:45am - 1:00pm - DAY OF ACTION
We will take our message directly to one of the banks responsible for the economic collapse and continues to use its clout and money in Washington DC to stop needed financial reform.



TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009

MARCH TO THE BANKER'S CONVENTION


10:00am - Prayer vigil on Wacker, east of Michicagan Avenue
10:30am - March: starting at Stetson and Wacker
11:00am - Rally at the Sheraton Hotel (301 East North Water Street, Chicago)

[Bozita]

1. Could be a terrific opportunity for a DU meet-up

[mopinko]

5. kicking for a get together np

[Bozita]

6. kick

[marmar]

7. I'm definitely planning on going.....

nt

[Bozita]

8. I posted notices in the Activist, Ill, WI, In, and MI forums

Wish I could be there.

[Bozita]

2. kick because it's sinking like a stone

[marmar]

3. A Kick to Bozita's Kick.

:kick:

[Bozita]

4. Kicking marmar's kick to my earlier kick

[bobbolink]

9. Maybe this could be a way to reach out to "moderate" conservatives who are also angry about this.

Corporates vs non-corporates is making more sense now than liberal vs conservative.

[scarletwoman]

10. +one thousand! You speak the truth!

We are in the fight of our lives, we should be recruiting allies among ALL the disaffected.

sw

[bobbolink]

11. I may faint.. Somebody agreed with something I said. ^_^

I'm not in a particularly peaceful mode, and I have no love for the crap the RW has done, but if this is a way to relate to them that will open their eyes, then .....

If only *I* don't have to be the one to do it. :evilgrin:

Seriously, there really is common ground here.

DEATH TO THE CORPORATIONS! :toast:

Maybe the Billionaires For Wealthcare can do a great action there?

[scarletwoman]

12. I did an OP many months ago about this very idea.

I said that the "left" should be working on the ground to direct all the anger that's out there to the proper target.

Needless to say, my OP dropped like a stone. But I'm used to that... :)

:hug:
sw

[bobbolink]

13. Well, dammit, if you'd STOP being so fucking cerebral!

I mean.... talking about strategery in a practical way....

:wtf:

It's ever so much more fun to demonize... and then deride the RW for demonizing us...

fiddling all the while...

What was the question again?

:loveya:

[scarletwoman]

16. LOL!

Wait... are you calling me a head case? :rofl:

I s'pose most DUers would never believe it, but in my real life I pretty much get along with just about everyone. I listen to people, ask gentle questions, take their concerns seriously, and try to find some bit of common ground on which to build a sense of common purpose.

Not the outright nutballs and bigots, of course. But there are so many people out there who are confused and hurting and have no idea why they're feeling so fucked over. They don't understand who their real enemies are.

OUR most important task in this life is to point their ire in the right direction. It takes patience, compassion, and creativity. But it can be done.

It CAN'T be done by dismissing them as stupid, delusional, or congenitally evil.

sw

[bobbolink]

15. Yanno.... a friend and I put together two pages of health care info, and have been copying them and

handing them out.

The same could be done about corporate facts... just a page tho... wouldn't want to give them eyestrain.

But, beware the fallout... when their anger finds its real target.... heads will roll....

[scarletwoman]

17. "heads will roll...." From your keyboard to the Flying Spaghetti Monster's ears! (nt)

[slipslidingaway]

14. knr - read about this last night. n/t