[act-ma] [UJP Activist] Understanding Wall Street Banking & How OCCUPY Can Do Better for the 99%

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UJP Activist: Understanding Wall Street Banking & How OCCUPY Can Do Better for
the 99%








UNDERSTANDING WALL STREET BANKING & HOW OCCUPY CAN DO BETTER FOR THE 99%
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When: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Where: Community Church of Boston • 565 Boylston St. • Copley Sq T •
Boston

The Occupy movement has been instrumental in exposing the financial system's
control of the global economy for the profit of the few. The purpose of OB Bank
Working group's presentation is to develop a common knowledge base about the
financial sector and to stimulate ideas and actions for creating financial
institutions committed to the public good

Speakers:

Jim Campen is a professor emeritus of economics at the UMass-Boston .He served
from 2007 to 2009 as executive director of Americans for Fairness in Lending
[1], which "exists to raise awareness of abusive credit and lending practices
and to promote re-regulation of the industry." 

Fred Moseley  graduated from Stanford and has been teaching economics at Mt
Holyoke College since 1989. He has taught  Political Economy, US Economic
History, Marxism and  written and published numerous papers including analyses
of US economic conditions.

Both speakers are important contributors to A Dollars and Sense, a Boston based
democratic and non-hierarchical collective of radical economics graduate
students and faculty founded  in 1974. Dollars and Sense publishes a blog,
books and a periodical devoted to 'real world economics'. 






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