Call to Act: Save and Strengthen Financial Reform

DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH

An Appeal for a Financial Crisis Education Outreach Campaign from “Plunder” Filmmaker and Author Danny Schechter

We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform.

Ironically, the deadline seems to be July 4th, our independence day, an occasion that will likely usher in ever more dependence on Wall Street despite appearances.

The conference on the Hill formally begins this week after weeks of behind-the-scenes legislative "reconciliation" --a fancy name for horse-trading and compromising between the House and Senate over different versions of the "reforms" with thousands of lobbyists for the financial industry using every trick in their infinite playbooks of persuasion and payoffs to assure that the final bill is loop-hole full, weak, and easy to maneuver around.