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This is what it looks like when foreclosure fighters demand Wall Street criminals be prosecuted

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On May 20th 500 underwater homeowners, foreclosure fighters, and allies converged on the Department of Justice to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration end their policy of Wall Street banks being "Too Big to Jail" and hold Wall Street criminals accountable for their greed and reckless practices that caused the Great Recession and stole our homes, our livelihoods, and our future. 50 people who have had their homes stolen, are fighting to keep them from being stolen, or have managed to fight back and win agreed to risk arrest to take our message directly to the highest law enforcement officer in the land. On May 20th 17 were arrested. Following an overnight encampment of 40 people, another 10 were arrested. Horrifyingly 3 people were tazed by police forces on Monday and another Home Defender was tazed on Tuesday morning. Finally on Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7 more were arrested at the law firm of Covington and Burling where Eric Holder used to be a partner and which counts major Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs as clients. That final protest was to highlight the revolving door between the DOJ and private law firms, where the people doing the prosecuting are often the people who used to and perhaps once again will be defending those same Wall Street criminals from any attempts aimed at holding them accountable for their ongoing criminal activities. We are not done.

great recession

This is what it looks like when foreclosure fighters demand Wall Street criminals be prosecuted

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