A New Way Forward | Restore the Economy, Jobs, Banking, Our Democracy in the Public's interest

Total moved out of big banks $939107

The Big 4 Banks Strangle Our Jobs, Our Democracy.

1. Break up with them: Make a deposit at a local bank, and cut up that big bank credit card. Get some easy tips.

Join Us to Break Up with the Big Banks

The interest rates and fees big banks are charging are servitude legalized by Congress. If Congress won't reign in the abuses of the big banks, we must! What's the formula for change? The only way towards a real economy with low unemployment is to break up the big banks, to end their dangerous practices and fees. The financial industry has grown so big that their profits now eat up 40% of all profits. We, consumers, rebel against corruption between the big banks and the government. We want consumer emancipation.

2. Help others end their abusive relationships too: Join us in your city until the abuse ends. find one.

National General Strike - October 29, 2010

Everywhere, USA

Oct 29 at 3:01 AM

I will go

ANWF at Left Forum

New York City

Mar 19 at 9:00 AM

I will go

Flyer at Portland Job Fair

Portland, OR

Mar 02 at (All day)

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Showdown in America with NPA, Pico and others

everywhere

Feb 28 at (All day)

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‘Train the Trainers’ Workshop

Boston, MA

Feb 27 at 1:00 PM

I will go

4 Dangers of Big Banks

1. Big banks are dangerous to our democracy. They have drowned out 95% of Americans, turned government into a feeding trough for the financial elite, and turned economic growth into deficit.

2. Big banking is so dangerously large that too much of America's wealth is tied up in it to serve the wealthy few.

3. Big banking is the biggest lobby and dangerously lobbies against the majority, to make dangerous practices legal. Big banking controls more than 40% of GDP as profit. There is little competition and they can overprice -- their highest fees and rates go to create cycles of debt.

4. Big banks dangerously invest in more big banking, and do very little lending to small and medium businesses -- the real engine for jobs and a safe and prosperous economy. Breaking them up and closing the feeding trough means opening up the market to many more small and medium sized banks and small and medium-sized businesses and jobs for people.

SIGN The 60,000 STRONG Public Plan - Break Up the Banks

Break up the Big Banks and create the level playing field that stimulates jobs for every American. 60,000 people already agree. Dominating banks mean dominating political power and kickbacks that hurt the average American. Government should get out of the way of a true free market, where small and medium-sized businesses can grow. Let's follow in the great American traditional distrust of concentrated power, of the “too big to fail” bank. How do we break up the banks? Read and Sign onto the plan here.

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What we can have: Jobs, Power, Freedom

Through a coordinated campaign to boycott the big banks and spread the word about it, we can break up the concentration of power of the corporate elites, and see a greater marketplace for ideas, jobs, and politics. Right now, the largest corporations are playing unfairly and are dependent on government to bypass common competition rules and the idea of one-person, one-vote.Instead, we want to see public policy that restores our economy to allow small businesses and new ventures to thrive, truly compete and create jobs. We support plans that put 95% of Americans at an advantage to have the good life.

"Our founding fathers started the great American tradition of preserving the political power of the individual over the dangerous powers of the concentrated," Tiffiniy Cheng of A New Way Forward said. "The big banks are that concentrated power, and are damaging our free market economy and our democracy.