About A New Way Forward

A New Way Forward is a public platform and volunteer structural reform thinking group to transform politics and the economy for the public good, made up of regular people and has no funding from any group. We are dedicated to structural change in the economy. We believe that concentrated financial power is dangerous for democracy, and distributed power is possible and achievable. We want to see a social, economic, and governing infrastructure that leads to opportunity, wealth creation, creativity, and local industry for everyone, including the existence of a vibrant public discourse everywhere – we have helped to develop a loud call to break up the biggest banks’ powers and to never let them get so big again they can take over our politics and economy.

We started in April 2009 – we held 60 volunteer, grassroots, nationally-coordinated protests all over the country – this was the first time there was a balanced, developed response to the then largely unquestioned bailouts for the biggest financial institutions. We’re thankful for the 60 or so people who volunteered their time to jumpstart what now has become a broader campaign to put forth the best public responses to our economic and political issues.

We help move forward the plan and movement for breaking up concentrated power by identifying our greatest leverage points and working on the parts that can benefit from our skills and resources, be it web, on the ground organizing, policy, or vision. We’re looking ahead for opportunities for great leaps of change.

ANWF is made up of the regular Americans who have come together to bring about structural reform of the financial industry and end the distortion of the political process by our largest corporations.

The Volunteer Organizers Who Fight for a Fair Financial System

A New Way Forward is made up of volunteers all over the country. These people are leading the charge and do an amazing job in their city and in this campaign for a participatory political economy. Many of these people have never organized before — they just signed up for an event or started helping out in their state. We’re already over 11,000 people strong, email us to do something — tyc at anewwayforward dot org.