Syracuse United Neighbors

President Obama Signs Financial Regulation Bill

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A long, hard battle.  Our protests in Chicago, NY City and Washington, DC helped put pressure on Congress to do the right thing--despite the legion of lobbyists and ill-gotten cash thrown at elected officials by the big banks and Wall St. concerns.

We can't rest on our laurels--now we have to drag the mainstream banks back to our neighborhoods and erase the redlining and loan discriminaton that have encircled our city for far too long.  (But it sure is good to win every once in awhile!)

 

Bail Out? No Thanks! Bust Up Big Banks!

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Every year, SUN attends the National People's Action (NPA) conference held in Washington, D.C.  For years, SUN has been able to bring home major victories to our neighborhoods, thanks to the work we do in alliance with other neighborhood groups in N.P.A.  We've gotten agreements with banks to work out loan defaults to avoid foreclosure, vacant houses in our neighborhoods boarded up and sold to non-profits and lots of great ideas we learn from other neighborhoods on housing, crime prevention and city services.

This year, the final day of the conference will culminate with the latest in our series of massive protests to advocate for stricter regulation of the nation's financial system--especially the big banks whose reckless speculation nearly crashed our entire economy.

The billions of dollars that taxpayers needed to invest in the bail out of these banks is now not available to help our neighborhoods deal with the catastrophic problems facing our families--layoffs of teachers, poor access to health care, reduced police service--the list  of our needs goes on and on.

We will be in Washington to impress upon leaders two simple ideas
1) Create tight regulations on the banking system so we do not have to invest anymore money in taxpayer-funded bailouts. 

2) Invest money in what's truly valuable--our people.  We need jobs, high quality education and housing.



SUN's Sweetest Fundraiser

Candy

How do organizations make money? Banks charge excessive fees and accept federal bailouts, Politicians sell access and votes for campaign contributions--SUN sells World's Finest Chocolate bars!

Each chocolate bar is one dollar. We have cases of 50 bars that you can sell to family and friends--at school, at work at church at the bowling alley! Each case has chocolate with milk chocolate (15), almonds (10), caramel (10) dark chocolate with almonds (10) and crisp (5). 

We also have half cases of 25 bars of both milk chocolate and caramel. 

Help keep SUN's independent voice strong in 2010. 

Call SUN at 476-7475 and we'll hook you up!