Americans are tired of being part of the 99% in a country that only works for the 1%. Join the movement and tell Wall Street and corporate America it’s time for a change.
What do you think needs to be done to make America work for the “other” 99%? Here are 8 demands being made by the AFL-CIO and Working America on half of working families. Add your own 9th demand at the end.
Demand #1: Tax Wall Street for gambling with our money. Pass the financial speculation tax.
Demand #2: Support education. Put teachers back in classrooms and ease the crippling burden of student debt.
Demand #3: Keep working families in their homes. Pass a mortgage relief plan that puts the needs of homeowners above the greed of mortgage bankers.
Demand #4: End too big to fail. Rein in the big banks and hold the people who caused the financial crisis accountable.
Demand #5: Fair share of taxes from the 1%. End the Bush tax cuts for the 1% and close corporate tax loopholes.
Demand #6: Businesses should invest in jobs. Corporations must stop sitting on their profits and start hiring again here in America.
Demand #7: Extend unemployment insurance. Millions of Americans are still out of work, and unemployment insurance is a vital lifeline.
Demand #8: End corporate control of our democracy. Abolish "corporate personhood” and restore full voting rights to real people.
Sign the petition and add your own 9th demand.
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