Don’t Forget Main Street!
Posted On: February 1, 2009
San Francisco – San Francisco’s Financial District recently had an earful from several groups protesting varied issues, from the Israeli–Palestinian hostilities, to the killing of a black man by a Bart police on New Years Day, to the billions in bailout money for banks and no help in sight for taxpayers.
The last group, composed of a hundred or so protesters mostly in suits and wingtips, showed up in front of major “Bailout” Banks that have received a portion of the $350 B of taxpayers’ money, to deliver a message from Main Street. “What’s in it for Taxpayers?”
The group led by the Greenlining Institute’s President, Bob Gnaizda, Executive Director, Orson Aguilar and Managing Attorney Samuel Kang, together with community advocates like Faith Bautista of Mabuhay Alliance, National Federation of Filipino American Associations Region 8 Chair, Jose Pecho, Latino groups from San Jose and the EastBay, and other Asian representatives went from bank to bank in an orderly manner. There was no screaming, just controlled disbelief and impassioned denouncement of how the banks seem to have forgotten about ordinary citizens, small business, immigrants and the underserved.
