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Let’s Send Wells Fargo a Clear Message:
Boycott Wells Fargo’s Criminal Activities in Gainesville and Across USA
22 JulWhen you bank with Wells Fargo your money supports:
* Wells Fargo’s ongoing sales of uninhabitable dioxin-contaminated homes to unsuspecting low-income and minority families in neighborhoods surrounding Koppers Superfund Site in violation of Florida Statutes requiring full disclosure of the superfund hazard.
* Dead Peasant Policies: Wells Fargo executives benefit financially from the deaths of their employees through insurance policies called “Dead Peasant Policies” that pay bonuses to key executives when employees and former employees die. WF’s Dead Peasant Policies have yielded $17.8 billion so far.
* Wells Fargo systematic discrimination: The U.S. Dept. of Justice has come to a $175 million settlement with WF for pushing minority loan applicants into risky, high-cost subprime loans regardless of qualifications.
*Wells Fargo for-profit prisons: WF-funded private prison companies cut rehab programs, limit staffing, deny adequate medical care, and distribute cheap food to increase revenue. WF also lobbies federal and state governments to enact harsher criminal and immigration laws to ensure a steady flow of prisoners and profits.
* Wells Fargo debit card and payday lending scandals.*Wells Fargo predatory practices that kill homeowners like the typo victim, who died in court after WF wrongfully continued foreclosure proceedings after acknowledging that the homeowner had mistakenly received foreclosure papers due to a WF typo, had never missed a payment, and was not the intended party.
*Wells Fargo bailout funds and programs that put taxpayers on the hook for up to $36.9 billion plus an unknown amount from the Federal Reserve’s $8 trillion in emergency programs.*Wells Fargo discriminatory neglect: WF has been ordered to pay $38.5 million to advocacy groups and regulators due to the bank’s neglect of foreclosure properties in minority areas.* Wells Fargo ongoing illegal foreclosures on US service members.
* Wells Fargo violations: WF reneged on NY/NJ homeowners’ loan modifications after Hurricane Sandy, violating a $25 billion settlement for the same misbehavior prior to the super storm.
* Wells Fargo thuggery: A breast cancer patient who never even had a WF mortgage was evicted at gunpoint by WF employees and the sheriff, despite the fact that a California court had placed a stay on the eviction which was posted on her front door.
The best way to end this predatory practice is to walk away from WF and conduct our business through local credit unions.
Let’s Send Wells Fargo a Clear Message:
Greed and Prejudice are Unacceptable- Especially at the Cost of Our Families’ Health and Safety!!!
Boycott Wells Fargo!
Unpublished Response to Inaccuracies in 02/06/13 Alligator Article
4 MarBecause the Koppers article printed in the Florida Independent Alligator on 02/06/13 contained several inaccurate statements, Sandra Watts Kennedy submitted a letter addressing these inaccuracies to the Alligator on 02/18/13. As of 03/04/13, the Alligator has not printed her letter, so koppersgainesville is posting it here:
Hundreds of afflicted residents are taking Koppers and Beazer East to court with scientific proof that levels of arsenic, dioxins and PAHs inside our homes are drastically higher than ACEPD and GRU staff asserted at Santa Fe College’s recent panel discussion on the Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site.
Dr. Mousa’s memory is creative concerning local government involvement in closing Koppers. He should review videos from numerous commission meetings showing citizens testifying to illnesses and deaths from Koppers toxic exposure and begging our elected officials to close down the site. It was only after residents produced documents proving that the City and GRU were among Koppers best customers and therefore abetting Koppers’ ongoing contamination, that we convinced the City to stop doing business with the polluter. Public outcry ultimately closed the plant.
If water contamination is the primary concern, why does our local government support EPA’s “cleanup plan” that contains no remedial action to stop the downward migration of contamination into the aquifer and continues to compromise our drinking water?
Stephen Foster Elementary School is not “several miles north” of the toxic site: it is only 1/3 mile away from the Site, and yes, our children there are at risk.
Regarding the related art show, families of Koppers victims are offended by the lavishing of grants for greenwashing projects when there is so much pain and suffering in our community. A better use of these funds would be to move the most severely afflicted residents out of harm’s way.
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