On October 27, thousands gathered outside of the annual American Bankers Association conference in Chicago, Illinois. This was the third and final day of a rally for financial reform, and included an appearance by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Jerry Morrison, executive director of the Illinois state council of the SEIU, told TPM that the rally was meant to urge banks who took taxpayer-funded bailouts to stop fighting financial reform: “We thought it was time to send them a message that they’re bankrupting America. We gave them money, and it’s time they gave it back.” Here, protesters demonstrate outside of the Goldman Sachs building in Chicago.
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The president of the local chapter of the SEIU (here in purple) talks with SEIU’s Stephen Lerner on the way to protest outside Wells Fargo’s regional office in Chicago.
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SEIU International/Heather Stone
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Businessmen walk by the protesters in front of Goldman Sachs headquarters in Chicago.
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SEIU International/Heather Stone
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Demonstrators march with a giant squid, a reference to Matt Taibbi’s July 2009 article in Rolling Stone, in which he calls Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
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Demonstrators use cutouts of bank CEOs to protest bank lobbyists’ opposition to proposed financial regulation.
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