Forum Post: New Chants!
Posted 13 years ago on Sept. 27, 2011, 9:46 p.m. EST by ChantLeader
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Wall Street Thrives Main Street Dies
We want Bankers Not Economy Tankers
"AWARENESS" is an important thing for people to have. Also "WHEN YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE." A Yogi said this phrase to me, and please pass it on to your fellow Americans. KEEP PREACHING THE TRUTH FOR IT SHALL SET YOU FREE.
Make love! Make Love! Break down the Wall! Make law! Make Law! Arrest them one and all! Make law! Make Law! Wall street must fall! Make law! Make Law! Together we stand tall!
The most effective thing we could chant and display on signs and discuss with the press as a demand is "PASS HR 1489. REINSTATE GLASS-STEAGALL."
"Pass the bill 1-4-8-9. If congress acts, our prez will sign." "Pass the bill 1-4-8-9. If congress acts, our prez will sign."
"Reinstate the act GLASS-STEAGALL." "It makes the Wall Street games illegal."
"Reinstate the act GLASS-STEAGALL." "It makes the Wall Street games illegal."
Here's why:
Most people are beginning to conclude that this is the A #1 thing we can do. I had this confirmed earlier when I received a message this evening from someone I know on the inside at one of the big investment banking firms we all know. Here's what he said:
"If you really want to drive the higher ups in my office and others absolutely nuts, start speaking relentlessly about reinstating Glass-Steagall and Congress passing H.R. 1489."
He said if we put this on a ton of signs, talk about it relentlessly to the press, chant it like a mantra, we'll "give the guys on the top floors in the corner offices of these giant investment banking firms a coronary."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Act --- Wiki entry summary: The repeal of provisions of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act effectively removed the separation that previously existed between investment banking which issued securities and commercial banks which accepted deposits. The deregulation also removed conflict of interest prohibitions between investment bankers serving as officers of commercial banks. Most economists believe this repeal directly contributed to the severity of the Financial crisis of 2007–2011 by allowing Wall Street investment banking firms to gamble with their depositors' money that was held in commercial banks owned or created by the investment firms.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1489
For full list of suggested demands for DC, please click here: https://occupywallst.org/forum/specific-demand-and-action-list-for-washington-dc/
You gambled away Grandma's pension,Its time to put you in detention
Get the banksters off our backs, jail time for Goldman-Sachs
Hey now banksters, come and listen, we're going to send all of you to prison
The government bailed out the bankers, we would rather jail those wankers
Financial crime deserves jail time
Glass-Steagall was repealed to give bankers more cash, now it's time for bankers to pay for the crash
Lots of CEOs got bailed, we want to see all of them get jailed
Did you give out a bad mortgage loan? Go to jail to atone.
Bring back Glass-Steagall, make this banking fraud illegal
Unfair taxing causes pain, no subsidies for capital gains
Glass-Steagall, Make it Legal!