Monday, January 09, 2006

SO. CAL. COMMUNITY ACTION ALERT FOR FRIDAY THE 13TH

This upcoming Friday there will be a protesting in front of Deutshce Bank HQs and for your So. California people, your support and presence is needed.

You recall the recent $20 million awarded descendants of life insurance policy holders who were massacred in the genocide, well this is Round Two. Read on…

WHO:
Armenians from Los Angeles and Orange County will be gathering in Downtown Los Angeles, for a press conference led by the law firms of Geragos & Geragos, Kabatack Brown Kellner, and Yeghiayan & Associates, the attorneys who settled the lawsuits against New York Life and AXA during the past year for $37.5 million dollars.
The firms now represent the heirs of Armenians who perished in the Armenian Genocide, in a lawsuit which will be filed on January 13, 2006 against Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. The lawsuit alleges that the German banks have systematically thwarted the recovery of millions of dollars in assets deposited by Armenians prior to the 1915 Genocide. In addition, the lawsuit seeks damages for looted Armenian assets forcibly taken by the Turkish government during the Genocide. Deutsche Bank funded the Turkish government's mass genocide of Armenians in return for these looted Armenian assets.

WHAT:
On Friday, January 13, 2006 at 12 noon, a press conference and protest will be held at the Los Angeles office of Deutsche Bank regarding its failure to return money and assets belonging to heirs of Armenians who perished in the Armenian Genocide. Your presence at this protest is need to garner the attention of Deutsche and Dresdner bank executives who have ignored their banks' wrongdoings. Guest speakers will include attorneys Mark J. Geragos, Brian Kabatack, and Vartkes Yeghiayan. Lunch will be donated by Zankou Chicken.

WHERE:
The Downtown offices of Deutsche Bank
300 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90071.

WHEN:
12 noon-1p.m.

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