SEIU: Meanwhile, a Few Thousand Blocks Off Wall Street

Since the financial crisis began, national news outlets have reported on the big rallies that have sprung up in cities across the country. Five thousand people in Chicago. A thousand in DC. Thousands of taxpayers coming together in California, and even on the doorsteps of the Wall Street banks in New York.

But what you don't see on your television are the hundreds of taxpayer-led rallies that are happening where news cameras rarely go. In places like Bloomington, IL and Lansing, MI, citizens are organizing together to speak out against the damage big banks have done to our economy. These are people Jamie Dimon will never meet, living in places that Lloyd Blankfein will never visit - but the impact Wall Street's reckless behavior has had on their lives couldn't be more direct.

Read the full article on the SEIU blog here.