DC Street Theater Targets Billionaire Bailout

Billionaires demanded blank checks from taxpayers on the streets of Washington yesterday in a street theater performance organized by DC Jobs with Justice (www.dcjwj.org) demanding that Congress pass an economic recovery plan putting people first instead of Wall Street and billionaires. With Congress expected back in town Thursday to consider another vote on the failed bailout plan, Billionaires for the Bailouts squared off against taxpayers and activists in the streets outside downtown banks a few blocks from the White House. As a Congressmember polished the foot of a cash-waving, green-clad billionaire standing on the back of a taxpayer, billionaires clad in top hats and gown chanted We broke it, you fix it with friendly Congressmembers, demanding a blank check from taxpayers while evicted homeowners struggled to pay their bills. Just when it looked like the billionaires would win the day, the Stop Corporate Greed crusader led taxpayers in shouting down the billionaires and built a real economic recovery for working people that included housing, corporate accountability, tax reform, green jobs, healthcare, and pensions. The action was one of dozens of actions organized nationally by Jobs with Justice (www.jwj.org) Tuesday. Click here (http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/step_up) to take action to tell Congress No Bailout for Billionaires.
- report/video by Andy Richards, Union City (www.dclabor.org)

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