Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Revolution at Hand?
During Friday’s lunch hour, a group of about 30 demonstrators organized by the San Diego Coffee Party took to the streets of downtown, carrying signs and occasionally bursting into chants. They gathered at the park outside Horton Plaza and walked to regional offices of a handful of banks, stopping outside of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, and finally Citibank.
Led by nattily attired pseudo-bankers, the demonstrators shouted disturbing statistics about the banking industry and handed out leaflets detailing their claims. Among them: Homes in America are being foreclosed at the rate of one every seven seconds. The chairman of Wells Fargo made $26.6 million last year; the average bank teller’s pay was $21,392. Six banks (including the aforementioned and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) control wealth equivalent to 60 percent of the nation’s GDP. Flyers also detailed executive bonuses paid to banking executives, money the banks spent lobbying against regulation, and offshore subsidiaries established as tax havens.
Reception of the group was generally upbeat, as high-fives were exchanged with Greenpeace solicitors, cheers received from passersby, and honks provided by cars (and one enthusiastic truck driver). The only negative encounters involved an angry cabbie and a security guard for Citibank who attempted to chase off the group.
The Coffee Party formed in recent months as a response to the Tea Party, calling for many of the same reforms but pledging to do so in a different way: “We encourage deliberation guided by reason amongst the many viewpoints held by our members. We see our diversity as a strength, not a weakness...” (from coffeepartyusa.com).
Here's something you might be interested in.
Revolution at Hand?
Revolution at Hand?
During Friday’s lunch hour, a group of about 30 demonstrators organized by the San Diego Coffee Party took to the streets of downtown, carrying signs and occasionally bursting into chants. They gathered at the park outside Horton Plaza and walked to regional offices of a handful of banks, stopping outside of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, and finally Citibank.
Led by nattily attired pseudo-bankers, the demonstrators shouted disturbing statistics about the banking industry and handed out leaflets detailing their claims. Among them: Homes in America are being foreclosed at the rate of one every seven seconds. The chairman of Wells Fargo made $26.6 million last year; the average bank teller’s pay was $21,392. Six banks (including the aforementioned and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) control wealth equivalent to 60 percent of the nation’s GDP. Flyers also detailed executive bonuses paid to banking executives, money the banks spent lobbying against regulation, and offshore subsidiaries established as tax havens.
Reception of the group was generally upbeat, as high-fives were exchanged with Greenpeace solicitors, cheers received from passersby, and honks provided by cars (and one enthusiastic truck driver). The only negative encounters involved an angry cabbie and a security guard for Citibank who attempted to chase off the group.
The Coffee Party formed in recent months as a response to the Tea Party, calling for many of the same reforms but pledging to do so in a different way: “We encourage deliberation guided by reason amongst the many viewpoints held by our members. We see our diversity as a strength, not a weakness...” (from coffeepartyusa.com).
Comments