Listen to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Pacifica Station WPFW's "Morning Watch" with Gloria Minott, Tue, Oct. 7, 2008 People's Speak Out at U.S. Capitol Building says "Bailout the people, not the banks"   Click here to see photos & a report.

We are witnessing a bankers' coup d’etat. In the name of saving the economy from a crisis created by their own greed and immense profits, the biggest bankers have taken a country and a people hostage.

“Give us your money and tear up what’s left of your Constitution or we will sink your economy,” is the message from Wall Street and the Bush Administration. “Give us the power and money we demand or you will be left jobless from a new economic depression."

Click here to register your opposition to the bailout and to get involved with the VoteNoBailout.org movement!

Congress has voted to give the Executive Branch of government, and specifically the White House’s political appointees in the Treasury Department, the absolute right to take our money and give it to domestic and foreign banks and corporations without any oversight of elected officials, from the courts, or from the people.

The Legislation allows the Treasury Department to appoint the same bankers who created the crisis to administer and dictate the use of trillions of our tax dollars.

When more than 1,000 workers demonstrated on Wall Street, VoteNoBailout.org volunteers were there with signs and flyers.

We will not stand by and let the Bush Administration formalize its vision of a “government of, by and for the richest bankers."

The new system institutionalizes theft on a grand scale. Lehman Brothers bankers will receive $2.5 billion in bonuses after their company went bankrupt last week, but the new dictatorial authority under the White House and Treasury Department has ruled out any relief for the millions of working families who are being foreclosed.

We live in a $15 trillion annual economy. Instead of taking our tax dollars and giving it to the already rich and powerful, these funds should be used provide to decent paying jobs, affordable housing, health care and a good education for our children. There is another way!

Now is the time to hear the voice of the people. A spineless Congress authorized Bush’s illegal war in Iraq and rubber-stamped the Patriot Act. Now they have been herded like sheep again to give the White House and Wall Street dictatorial control over the people’s money.

Click here to register your opposition to the bailout and to get involved with the VoteNoBailout.org movement!

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