#OccupyTheCiti with us from 8am to 8pm on J27! (CitiGroup protest this Wed.)

Occupy Astoria LIC Invites Everyone to Join Us For
A Day of Public Outrage and Education, Wed June 27
At the Citigroup Building in Long Island City.

Occupy Astoria LIC invites everyone for a day of public outrage and education, with special guests, at the Citigroup Building, One Court Square in Long Island City.

Four years ago, Citigroup and the Wall Street banks crashed the world economy. They should have been liquidated. The executives should have been fired and subjected to criminal investigations.

Instead the “Too Big to Fail” banks were bailed out with trillions of dollars and now they are bigger than ever.

They are still buying politicians.

They are still paying exorbitant bonuses to executives.

They are still fraudulently foreclosing on homes.

In 2010, Citigroup made $4 billion in profits and paid no taxes. How about you?

We will gather, hold teach-ins, and speak truth to power.

#OccupyTheCiti with us from 8am to 8pm on June 27!

Directions: E, G, M, 7 to Court Square.

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1: Why Occupy the Citi? What Are Our Grievances?
Four years ago, Citigroup and other major Wall Street banks caused the most dramatic financial crash since 1929. The institutions responsible for the resulting world-wide misery are a public danger. They should have been liquidated. The executives should have been fired, and subjected to criminal investigation. What happened instead? Banks bailed out by the public continue to profit from predatory actions, and We the People continue to pay the price. Where money controls politics, Wall Street is above the law… (read more)


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2: Why Aren’t We Making Demands?
The Citi That Always Cheats: Two Hundred Years Are Enough

As it celebrates its 200-year anniversary, the time has come for Citigroup to be put to sleep. Citigroup is a model for the Wall Street greed, fraud and failure that have devastated the lives of millions of people. In 2010, Citigroup made $4 billion in profits and paid no taxes. How about you? We’d like to imagine we could make demands of such an organization, or appeal to the consciences of its executives. Citi’s history tells us otherwise… (read more)


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3: Our Message Is To Our Fellow People –
Especially the People Working At Citigroup
On June 27 we will be at the plaza in front of the Citigroup Building in Long Island City. This is a fully public space under the building owners’ contract with New York City. We will not be there to ask favors from Citigroup, but to speak to We, the People. We know a great many good people work in this building, just to make a living for yourselves and your families. Our action is not against you, and we invite you to visit our event. We are all the 99 percent… (read more)


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4: Citigroup Facts And Reference Material
We have collected some relevant readings. Check back again, as we will be adding leaflets and promotional materials for J27: Occupy The Citi, Long Island City… (read more)

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http://www.occupyastorialic.org/blog/2012/06/10/occupy-the-citi-main/

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Alexis Goldstein will be in attendance-



Young Wall Street Traitor Joins Occupy Wall Street
by Source on June 19, 2012

Alexis Goldstein recounted how they talk about “FU money” on Wall St. That was when you had
so much money that you could say “Fuck You” to anybody and not have there be any consequences. You are above everything and are immune from the world.

At one point in my career, I was being recruited by a hedge fund. During the recruitment process, one of my interviewers frankly described the fund’s founder—his boss’s boss—as a “spoiled brat billionaire.” My interviewer related a story about a meeting between the hedge fund and an executive at a company the fund wanted to work with. At one point, the visiting executive made statements the fund founder didn’t like. The founder turned to the visitor and said, “So, you came here just to try and fuck me over?” The visitor quickly stormed out in a rage. But the founder wasn’t satisfied just yet. He followed the man out of the room, into the elevator, shouted the entire ride down, and then yelled at him in the lobby until he finally left the building. When the founder came back upstairs to greet his shaken employees, he said, invigorated and beaming, “Wasn’t that fun?!”

This is Wall Street’s equivalent of the American Dream: to earn enough money so that you can behave in a way that makes the very existence of other people irrelevant.

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She talks about a culture of admiring cheaters. If you do something against regulations and you only get caught once and pay a small fine, it’s worth it because the end goal is to make money no matter how. Wall Street exemplifies an ethic of profits at any cost. Finally, Goldstein said to herself, “I dont know if I can stay here and still be an ethical person.” So the ones who end up remaining on Wall Street are the ones who have the least ethical scruples, the ones like the Enron traders of a decade ago who don’t mind screwing Grandma out of her pension.

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http://sandiegofreepress.org/2012/06/young-wall-street-traitor-joins-occupy-wall-street/