Join Change to Win and other progressive groups at the US Chamber of Commerce Regional Convention at the Fairmont Hotel to protest their increasingly strident and pro-big business positions on financial regulation, CEO pay, net neutrality, and climate change legislation.
BACKGROUND:
From Change to Win:
Under Tom Donahue's leadership, the Chamber:
* Opposes regulating the markets, products and practices that generated massive payouts to Wall Street executives, but ultimately devastated their companies and caused the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
* Fights reforms that would make executive compensation more transparent, financial statements more reliable and accounting fraud more difficult to conceal.
* Attacks the ability of government agencies to investigate and hold accountable executives who may have engaged in wrongdoing.
* Opposes net neutrality regulations
* Opposes climate change legislation
* Defends executives accused or convicted of breaking the law, including ousted AIG head Hank Greenberg, who contributed $24.5 million to the Chamber; ex-Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio who is serving six years for insider trading that took place while Donohue was a Qwest director; and billionaire Philip Anschutz, perhaps Donohue's closest ally.
These activities are not in the interests of either the small businesses that make up 96% of the Chamber's members or American business generally. Rather, they are nothing more than attempts to defend discredited practices that enable executives to enrich themselves at shareholders' expense.
Location:
Fairmont Hotel (outside)
950 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA