{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-25T23:53:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:53:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T06:53:21","slug":"no-blank-check-to-wall-street-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/09\/25\/no-blank-check-to-wall-street-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"No blank check to Wall Street: Call to action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>No blank check for Wall Street<\/strong> is a multi-partisan group of people demanding accountability for Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. We welcome those who oppose a bailout as well as those support a bailout with accountability. \u00c2\u00a0Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/\">our website<\/a> for more.\u00c2\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/minifeed.php?id=27399824194\">Facebook feed<\/a> is the best way to track what&#8217;s happening; updates on the campaign&#8217;s progress in the first comment.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Also posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=7215\">on Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/image.wetpaint.com\/image\/1\/eUNcqddUlll4p5Pc42EpXw46150\/GW204H286\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"198\" \/>Enough feeling powerless as a &#8220;crisis&#8221; spurs the government to talk about taking $700 billion out of taxpayers&#8217; pockets with no oversight!\u00c2\u00a0 I know there are a lot of people out there who are just as angry as I am. So let&#8217;s do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>A couple days ago, I launched the <strong>No blank check for Wall Street<\/strong> activism campaign by creating a <a class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/pages\/No-blank-check-for-Wall-Street\/27399824194\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">web site<\/a>. The goal of our campaign is to send politicians a strong message:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wall Street firms and executives should be held accountable, and should not be allowed to profit from misdeeds<\/li>\n<li>Any government spending or loan guarantees to Wall Street as part of a recovery package must not be a blank check; it must involve meaningful oversight, accountability, and fair compensation to taxpayers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To start with, we&#8217;ll give politicians feedback directly on their Facebook pages with a <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/page\/A+wall-writing+campaign\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">wall-writing campaign<\/a>. (If you&#8217;re not on Facebook, don&#8217;t worry, there are still ways for you to get involved.)\u00c2\u00a0 Most politicians&#8217; Facebook pages are usually fairly quiet. When they start seeing 10, 20, 50, 100 messages a day, all letting them know that we don&#8217;t want a blank check for Wall Street, they&#8217;ll take notice &#8212; and so will the media.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>most importantly: let your friends and family know &#8211; by email, text, twitter, IM, or phone.\u00c2\u00a0 feel free to cut-and-paste as much of this as you want!<\/li>\n<li><em>If you&#8217;re on Facebook:<\/em> <a class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/pages\/No-blank-check-for-Wall-Street\/27399824194\" target=\"_blank\">sign up as a fan<\/a> and start <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/page\/A+wall-writing+campaign\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">writing on walls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>If you know somebody on Facebook: <\/em>please forward them the link and ask them to join us<\/li>\n<li><em>If you blog<\/em><strong>: <\/strong>please mention <strong>No blank check for Wall Street<\/strong> and link to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/pages\/No-blank-check-for-Wall-Street\/27399824194\" target=\"_blank\">the Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">our wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now&#8217;s the time to act. Please join us!<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n<p>PS: the easiest ways to stay in touch are via our Facebook feed or our <a class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/nbc4ws-announce\" target=\"_blank\">announcements<\/a> email list. And if you&#8217;re on other social network sites instead (Yahoo!, MySpace, SecondLife, YouTube), stay tuned: <a href=\"http:\/\/noblankcheck.wetpaint.com\/page\/Social+network+sites\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">we might do something there as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No blank check for Wall Street is a multi-partisan group of people demanding accountability for Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. We welcome those who oppose a bailout as well as those support a bailout with accountability. \u00c2\u00a0Please see our website for more.\u00c2\u00a0 Our Facebook feed is the best way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[25,128,141,239,323],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-activism","tag-economy","tag-facebook","tag-noblankcheck","tag-social-network-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}