Connecticut Working Families

It’s been a month since a group of bold and passionate demonstrators set up to Occupy Wall Street in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. Since then, the movement has spread to 105 cities across the country. A few blocks from where I live in Hartford, the encampment is growing at Turning Point Park.

People are raising their voices against corporate greed. One of the best examples is here in Connecticut. GE has made billions in profits – while somehow managing to avoid paying any federal income taxes. CEO Jeff Immelt, took home $21 million in 2010. And, even though the company is sitting on nearly $100 billion in cash reserves, GE has shed more than 19,000 U.S. jobs since 2008.

But that didn’t stop Immelt from being named to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness early this year.

CEOs like Immelt don’t know what life is like for the other 99%. He needs to hear from you: If you or someone in your family is struggling, tell him about your lost jobs, your depressed wages, your struggles to keep your home and your healthcare.

Click here to share your story.

We’ll be delivering your stories right to Jeff Immelt.

CEOs like Immelt don’t understand what it’s like to live in these difficult times without a huge corporate income. While their paychecks have been getting bigger, ours have been getting smaller – if we’re lucky enough to still be getting one. They collect multi-million dollar bonuses while millions of us only collect unemployment. We need to make sure they understand what their corporate greed has done to our economy.

The message of Occupy Wall Street has struck a deep chord around the world and changed our idea of what we, the people, can accomplish by doing one simple thing: bearing witness on the very doorstep of those responsible for the global economic crisis.

The movement is catching hold with the public. Despite our growing strength, the Wall Street CEOs who crashed our economy still act like they can ignore us. So we’re raising our voices directly at the corporate bigwigs who caused this global crisis by delivering stories of how their greed has led to suffering for ordinary Americans.

Click here to explain to Jeff Immelt and other executives who just don’t get it how their boardroom decisions affect the other 99%:

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4913

Thanks for all you do,

Jon Green
Executive Director
www.connecticutworkingfamilies.org

PS – Thanks for sharing your story. On Saturday, we’ll deliver some of them to Jeff Immelt personally. We hope you can join us. You can RSVP here.