SEIU leads new banking shakedown campaign

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 25, 2009 11:25 PM

At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago, the SEIU army spearheaded an angry mob protest against major financial institutions who have taken federal bailout funds.

It was the usual left-wing Kabuki theater. If the protesters were sincerely mad about the government bailouts, they’d be yelling on Capitol Hill and in front of the White House. SEIU is simply taking over for its disgraced brethren at ACORN — with whom they have long collaborated on corporate shakedowns. Remember: SEIU and ACORN are flip sides of the same corrupted coin.

This isn’t about demanding an end to corporate welfare. It’s about getting a piece of the action through the “persuasion of power.”

Call it Muscle for Money 2.0. Here’s video:

From the SEIU’s “Big Banks” attack site, here’s a list of the shakedown collaborators:

* A New Way Forward
* Action Now
* AFL-CIO
* Albany Park Neighborhood Council
* Alliance to Develop Power (ADP)
* Americans for Fairness in Lending
* Americans for Financial Reform
* ARISE Chicago
* Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
* Central Illinois Organizing Project (CIOP)
* Center for Community Change (CCC)
* Change in Terms
* Change To Win
* Chicago Coalition of the Homeless
* Citizen Action
* Communities United for Action (CUFA)
* Community Voices Heard (CVH)
* Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO)
* Gender Just Metanoia Centers, Inc.
* Grassroots Collaborative
* Green Party of Nevada
* Fuerza Laboral/Power of Workers
* Housing Action Illinois
* Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans
* Illinois Hunger Coalition
* Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
* Jane Addams Senior Caucus
* Jobs with Justice
* Michigan People’s Action (MPA)
* MoveOn
* Northside Action and Justice
* Northside POWER
* Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition
* National People’s Action
* People Organized for West Side Renewal (POWER)
* PUSH Buffalo
* Right to the City Alliance
* Rights for All People (RAP)
* Roomdad Productions
* SEIU Illinois State Council
* SEIU Local 1
* SOUL
* South Austin Coalition Community Council (SACCC)
* Sunflower Community Action
* Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN)
* Teach Our Children (TOC)
* UE
* UCLA Undergraduate Students Association
* Workers United
* Working In Neighborhoods (WIN)

Keep the list handy. With ACORN in hiding, these “social justice” groups will be the SEIU’s new human stage props for its racketeering command performances.

The SEIU Illinois organizers have more disruptive activities planned through Tuesday. HuffPo cheers.

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Let me once again draw your attention to the useful chart from GOP congressmen Peter Roskam, Patrick McHenry, and Mark Kirk illustrating the SEIU-ACORN alliance:

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  1. #1
    On October 25th, 2009 at 11:43 pm, Mark Harvey said:

    Gotcha covered on the list. This is INCREDIBLE!

  2. #2
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:11 am, Right By-The-Sea said:

    This list is sickening. Printing it off as I type…

  3. #3
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:16 am, thefoundingfathers said:

    With apologies to Monty Python and the “Spot the Loony” skit–

    It’s now time to play “Spot the Lemmings”. How do you play? Just wait to hear which for profit organization(s)get named by the Prevaracator in Chief and his lieutenants and wait for the professional protesters paid for by union dues and taxpayer money show up and you can “Spot the Lemmings!”

  4. #4
    On October 26th, 2009 at 1:58 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    The usual left-wing Communist Party Kabuki theater.

    In my opinion, the list of the shakedown collaborators is a list of Communist front organizations.

    “Fairness” to us is equality of opportunity.

    “Fairness” to them is equality of results.

    (Although Socialist and Communist societies never actually produce equality of results… only the “useful idiots” fall for that lie…)

  5. #5
    On October 26th, 2009 at 4:29 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    OK ACORN and the Purple Punks are shakedown artist-so are Jesse Jackson and Blood on the Diamonds Jews Al Sharpton-AKA The Justice Brothers. But WHO are the real criminal here? It is the corporate executives who pay the skim with their stockholders money, declare it a business expense and thus cheat the IRS (always a nobel idea ;) ).

    IF, big IF, these corporate executives would stop this crap the shakedowns would stop.

  6. #6
    On October 26th, 2009 at 6:29 am, zorro said:

    here’s a list of the shakedown collaborators:

    Brown Shirts of America, Unite. Their battle-cry, give us your money or we’ll break you legs.

    What a bunch of thugs. Intimidation is the name of the game for this corrupt administration.

  7. #7
    On October 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am, jjmurphy said:

    ITookTheRedPill – You are right! These are all communists/collectivists/totalitarianists. They all want something for nothing and have no qualms about taking it from those that actually produce.

    AzN – You are right, too. The corporations should stop caving in to these shakedown communists.

  8. #8
    On October 26th, 2009 at 7:18 am, beachmom said:

    Man! They sound like communist party members. It’s kind of funny how they just repeat what they’re told to say.
    They probably don’t ever look anything up for themselves.
    Everyone who has said the companies should stop giving in, you are so right.
    It just keeps these bullies going and gives them the open to move on to the next group they want money from.

  9. #9
    On October 26th, 2009 at 8:37 am, MarcoPolo said:

    Nobody on that list produces anything that adds any value in the economy. Staggering.

  10. #10
    On October 26th, 2009 at 8:47 am, jangar said:

    Absolute foolishness to think for a nano-second that the election of this administration and congress would ever move our nation forward in a positive way.

    Absolute foolishness on display. The unrest and massive contempt is the fallout from the scam being played out on America. 2010 will be ground zero in so many ways.

  11. #11
    On October 26th, 2009 at 8:54 am, jangar said:

    What a bunch of thugs. Intimidation is the name of the game for this corrupt administration.

    Yes. Financial rape of the taxpayer.

    If this does not wake up voters in 2010, then nothing will.

  12. #12
    On October 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am, Truesoldier said:

    My wife and I started playing a drinking game this weekend. What you do is everytime you see a pre-printed liberal protest time you take a drink….we had to stop as we feared alchol poisioning in the first hour.

  13. #13
    On October 26th, 2009 at 9:05 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Wouldn’t it be cool if the FBI had that same organization chart that they were analyzing just before they laid down a major sting smackdown. I hope for change.

  14. #14
    On October 26th, 2009 at 9:17 am, jangar said:

    Wouldn’t it be cool if the FBI had that same organization chart that they were analyzing just before they laid down a major sting smackdown. I hope for change.

    Obama and Holder will never prosecute their own spawn.

    Prosecution rests with the voters in 2010 and 2012.

  15. #15
    On October 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am, tiredofit08 said:

    * Rights for All People (RAP)

    I guess that doesn’t include my right not to have to pay for freeloaders and thugs and keep what I EARN???

  16. #16
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:04 am, CommentGuy said:

    From another of their partner websites just part of their ‘solution’.

    http://www.showdowninchicago.org/oursolution.html

    Modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act will increase transparency, accountability and stability in the financial system by ensuring banks and mortgage companies provide responsible, quality lending and financial services in American communities. Over 80% of the high-cost subprime loans made between 2004-2007 were made by institutions NOT regulated by CRA. Those loans that have performed the best were loans made by institutions regulated by CRA. We need to update the law to ensure all lenders are covered by the law in order to curb subprime predatory lending and prevent a future crises.
    —————–
    The CRA was the very thing that got this whole mess rolling years ago under the push from similar groups and the Dem party. Expansion instead of elimination is the wrong way to go.

  17. #17
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:05 am, Mimi1220 said:

    The banks should call all their notes due…from everyone of these useful idiots.

  18. #18
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:09 am, jangar said:

    I guess that doesn’t include my right not to have to pay for freeloaders and thugs and keep what I EARN???

    You work…and the state decides what you keep. You get your head on right and the powers-that-be will allow you to collectively profit.

    It’s the Demosocialcrat way.

  19. #19
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:31 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I really am willing to consider if Obama is indeed the Manchurian Candidate, not the Siberian Candidate as I had been thinking.

    The Political Manifesto of Barack H Obama.

    Mao is cited in the bibliography, Stalin isn’t. Oh, Obama’s mentors have been hating Jews for 35 years.

    Quote
    The Palestinians are 3.3 million landless people, dispersed primarily
    in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. They have
    become the people of the diaspora -exiled from their homeland of
    thousands of years by the state of Israel and the ideology of zionism.
    Referred to in the US press as “Arab terrorists”, “Arab refugees”, or
    “Southern Syrians”, the Palestinians have been struggling to return to their
    land and for their right to self-determination and liberation. Their claim is
    just; it is based on the fact of Palestinian national existence: a common
    heritage, the labor of their ancestors, the cultivation of citrus and olives,
    trade, the building of the cities of Haifa, Jaffa and Lydda, their culture, their
    dignity as a people.
    For 24 years, hundreds of thousands of proud Palestinians have
    been forced into hastily set up U.N. refugee camps with no means of survival
    except food depots and U.N. rations. Displaced again in 1967, this time from
    the occupied territories, the Palestinians faced a second exodus, twice
    refugees. The ab’ocious camps, originally organized as a temporary measure,
    are the living grievance -they express the contradiction emhodied in the
    existence of Israel at the expense of Palestine.
    Israel has never recognized the Palestinians’ rights. Zionist leaders
    have rejected U.N. resolutions calling for the return of the refugees to their
    homeland, rejected the idea that the “so-called Palestinian people” exist, and
    insisted that they are the Arabs’problem, not theirs. From the outset, Israel
    has worked toward a purely Jewish state.

  20. #20
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:34 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    “Comrade Red Square”, a survivor of the former USSR, recognizes the role of unions like the SEIU in the advancement of communism.

    (Long read- worth it)

  21. #21
    On October 26th, 2009 at 10:49 am, jangar said:

    Obama’s mentors have been hating Jews for 35 years.

    Including Rahm. Liberal Jews have no use for the orthodox, just like the GOP has no stomach for conservatives and the religious right. Both are an embarrassment.

  22. #22
    On October 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am, pat sankpal said:

    Looks like those liberal critics are right about the deterioration of discourse in America. What a bunch of loud, rude people.

    Just try doing somthing like this against the government takeover of health care and wind up on the front page called an angry mob manipulated by special interests.

  23. #23
    On October 26th, 2009 at 11:31 am, vickisoup said:

    I’ve got a bookend of “franks” that are responsible for the bank meltdown and ruining our economy:
    Barney Frank ~ Franklin Raines
    We can bet they’re behind this ridiculous display. The distraction won’t work.
    8)

  24. #24
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, reshas1 said:

    And Obama says the Republicans do what they are told…. HA

  25. #25
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm, reshas1 said:

    Where are their purple shirts..

  26. #26
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Even the “average bear” can spot the terrorists. Strange coincidence–all are radical Islamistas.
    ***
    9/11/2001 pilots=terrorists
    WTC bombers=terrorists.
    Car bomb driver=terrorist.
    IED planter=terrorist.
    Person with suicide bomb vest=terrorist.
    Bulldozer driver killing Jews=terrorist.
    Shooter killing civilians=terrorist.
    Yassir Arafat (RIH)=terrorist.
    Iran’s mullahs=terrorists.
    Hamas rocketeers=terrorists.
    Sharia law enforcers=terrorists.
    ***
    Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his ilk=TERRORIST ENABLERS. Using $900 million of our taxpayer money to reward them!
    ***
    You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to find them! Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman knew how to “get the attention” of the German Nazi and Imperial Japanese terrorists and their enablers. Sometimes the “old way” of handling problems is the best way.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  27. #27
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pm, right_on said:

    ACORN is already reforming into other tax-tapping organizations to help their recently interrupted federal cash flow. One such group will be named:

    Community of Oppressed Non-workers Joining with Other Beggars

    It should be instantly identifiable by it’s initiatives under the moniker…

    CONJOB

  28. #28
    On October 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Dimsdale said:

    If SEIU is so convinced that they know a lot about banking, why don’t they just start their own? Then they can show us with actions what works and doesn’t work.

    Put all that dues money to good use.

  29. #29
    On October 26th, 2009 at 1:48 pm, jangar said:

    right_on said:

    Community of Oppressed Non-workers Joining with Other Beggars

    CONJOB

    Gold star of the day!

  30. #30
    On October 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, thetoysurgeon said:

    Communists hard at work with our tax money!

  31. #31
    On October 26th, 2009 at 5:31 pm, jangar said:

    * Gender Just Metanoia Centers, Inc.

    What the …?

  32. #32
    On October 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm, fred5676 said:

    At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago,

    Chicago? CHICAGO???

    These bankers really are stupid. Or maybe they haven’t been following the news about the corrupt gangs of politicians and unions headquartered there.

    Why not convene in a good ‘ol military-supporting town?

  33. #33
    On October 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pm, starlightwoman said:

    What these idiots don’t seem to realize is that the banks were forced to take the money.
    Now Obummer wont let some of them pay it back – it’s all about control.

  34. #34
    On October 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm, right_on said:

    Chicago? CHICAGO???

    They don’t call it the “Windy City” for nothing. Businessmen must really enjoy all the hot air blown up their poop shoots! Or do they just go there for all the political whoring dialog that takes place?

  35. #35
    On October 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

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