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Posted by robertgreenwald on April 27th, 2009
Fire Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis

The economic crisis is out of control, as Bank of America and the corrupt corporate elite continue to wage class warfare. It’s time we hit back hard. It’s time we fire CEO Ken Lewis.

Our good friends at SEIU have been courageously leading this fight. We need to follow their lead and encourage everyone to demand the resignation of Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis. After all, Lewis works for us now. Tens of billions of our taxpayer dollars went toward bailing out Bank of America, but what have we received in return? More predatory lending, billions wasted on exorbitant salaries and executive bonuses, and corporate lobbying against Employee Free Choice.

Watch the video narrated by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and see for yourself why we must fire Ken Lewis.

Send this video to your friends and family, spread the word and Digg it. Tell them to join us Tuesday, April 28, in demonstrations across the country to fire Ken Lewis. And when you protest, make sure to yell loud and clear. Otherwise, Bank of America and other Wall Street firms will continue their economic rampage, obliterating our country’s working class.

As blogger Marcy Wheeler suggests, we need to fire Ken Lewis for over $3 billion in bonuses Merrill Lynch execs received after Bank of America took them over. We need to fire him for Bank of America’s continued predatory lending, soaring credit card fees, abhorrent mistreatment of workers, and for standing in the way of Employee Free Choice. We need to fire him for being the poster boy of corporate greed.

  • Thanks for sharing . This information is useful for me.
  • It only proves that we our suffering recession right now... even the big ones cannot escape this...
    Now days... being a CEO is hard thing...
  • leslie
    What is the funny-money worth nowdays?! Bank of America can raise interest ratesthey charge to borrowers, and they can determine the interest rates they will pay to those with savings accounts and CD's (currently less than 2%) If they get to call the shots at both ends, there's no justice to the saver or to the borrower ... money has no value anymore .!. If our money cannot work for us, why should we work for the money?
  • Mark
    Hey Brave New Films....tell us something we don't already know.....you need to go to the heart of the problem "The Federal Reserve"......They are putting the tax payer and America in peril...Look into why they can spend/print trillions of $$$$ with out Congressional approval.....Look in Geithner's past and you will find his chummy past with all these CEO's....Ask him why we are doing bailouts to his buddies the CEOs or more important the bond holders....Ask him why we the tax payers are on the hook for trillions. He should be doing equity stock swaps with the bond holders of these bankrupt Banks...this is normal procedure in the Fed System and the corp world...I know why they are doing it ....but more important is that you find the answer's. The US tax payer is now on the hook for 12-15 tillion dollers in loans and guarantees....most of which will never be recovered. So if you would like to do something really important other than waste your film on these little guys take a little trip to see The Feds!
  • texasconservative
    Come on, let's use some common sense and go after the root cause of the problem. That of course, would be the Socialist Liberal Democrats that allowed this travesty to happen in the first place by forcing Banks to give out unsecured loans in the billions. Why are these Democratic Congressmen allowed to stay in office?
    Now the socialist Democrats want to pass the " Free Choice Act", claiming it would be good for our economy?! Just how anyone would benefit from losing their right to a secret ballot is anyone's guess?
    Yet, the spin goes on, in an attempt to misdirect the citizens away from governments corrupt role in this mess, and place it on the CEO's of the very corporations this socialist government forced into making irresponsible loans.
    The bold-faced, audacity of this government. " cover their asses mentality", has to be confronted and those responsible for the economic mess should be summarily removed from office. We can start with Dodd, Franks, Reid, Pelosi, and Waters, just to name a few.
    Pelosi wants a truth inquiry concerning the CIA? How about a truth hunt into her unbleivable lie concerning water-bording?!! She was briefed no less than 30 time, and now she claims she wasn't?!! Let's start with her worthless, lying ass!!
    And while we're at it, a truth hunt into Dian Feinsteins role into getting her husband a very lucrative contract with the government. There's enough BS in Washington to fertilize the entire earth! Let's start with them first!!
  • nate
    Nice, but go further. I'd like to see an investigation into the Kellerman "suicide", a proper investigation of the financial fraud (including Pelosi's buddies Rohatyn, Soros, and the rest of the speculative swindlers), and get a campaign going to fire Larry Summers!! Why the heck is Larry Summers running Obama's economic policy?!? This is Mr. FreeMarket, the guy who stood next to Greenspan and promoted this derivatives, the guy who looted Russia for billions, and is a proven sexist. I ask again, why are we creating a new debt bubble with tax dollars?! Who the hell let this guy in the front door? Pressure Obama to get rid of him!!
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