Building A Break Up the Banks Campaign

Total moved out of big banks $939107

Building A Break Up the Banks Campaign

Break Up The Banks Coordinated Public Campaign

Please email tyc@anewwayforward.org to add your group.

Dear Organization,

We invite your group to join a sustained boycott and outreach campaign to change the course for breaking up the banks. You will join the coalition of groups, all of whom believe that the major financial industry players have had far too much control over the response to the economic crisis that is destroying our communities.

We need to put people in the seat of power over the bankers. If we don't address the way companies are allowed to grow so big that they can take down the country, we will lose the very battle that can also deliver us to a safer, stabler economy.

While each group has a different specific piece of legislative focus, we all share a belief that Wall Street power over government policy is far too great, and that we need to assert control over the large, insolvent companies that are currently being funded by taxpayer dollars. We will work with you to present your policy goals on the site

What will this coalition of groups do? We will have a consolidated public campaign that carries a shared message to reform the economy forward.

Please get in touch with Tiffiniy Cheng at tyc - anewwayforwad - org

"The Americans for Financial Reform supports our Break up with Your Bank campaign, " A New Way Forward is helping to rein in the greedy reckless behavior of the big banks with their campaign, "Break up with Your Bank". Americans for Financial Reform joins with them to expose the Wall Street bank abuse in credit cards, mortgages and threats to our overall economy that has cost millions of jobs, billions in bailouts and trillions in lost retirement and savings." - AFR

Other campaigns we support because they are working on the same issues for the same economic reforms in the public's interest:
The ADR Credit Union Challenge - compare savings&switch!
The Real Wealth of Portland
Move Your Money
Break Up the Big Banks
Americans for Financial Reform
New Economy
My Community Bank by ICBA
Jobs with Justice
IAF's 10% is Enough
Prosperity Agenda

This campaign is made possible by:

Prosperity Agenda
BanksterUSA.org
The Real Wealth of Portland
Move Your Money
Break Up the Big Banks
Americans for Financial Reform
New Economy

Sponsors and Advisors

-Clean Air, Fresh Politic's Prosperity Agenda.Us
-Danny Schechter, Media Channel, News Dissector, The Crime of Our Time
-Mike Lux, Open Left
-Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake
-David Sirota, Syndicated Columnist, Author
-Joe Trippi, Change Congress, co-founder
-Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law at Fordham University, Dean Campaign
-Joe Costello, Energy, Communications, and Political Economy
-William Greider, "Come Home, America", National Correspondent, The Nation
-Yves Smith, Economist, Naked Capitalism

Past Supporting Groups

-ANWF is a part of Americans for Financial Reform -The Working Group on Extreme Inequality
-Institute for Policy Studies, Program on Inequality and Common Good
-Jerome Armstrong, MyDD, founder: "The corporate bailouts have become a complete political disaster."
-Alternet
-AFSCME - Pittsburgh
-Rural Votes
-California Reinvestment Coalition
-New Paltz Women in Black
-Economic Justice Committee of New Paltz and Vicinity for Obama
-Portland Jobs with Justice
-David Dayen, D-Day, founder and Hullabaloo*, blogger
-David Swanson, After Downing Street
-Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
-Cleveland Committee on Corporations, Law & Democracy
-Progressive Democrats of America
-Democrats.com
-Grassroots Change
-Public Accountability Initiative
-Liberty Tree
-The Voters
-Wake County Young Democrats
-New Haven Peace Council
-Consumers for Peace
-Billionaires for Bush
-BuzzFlash
-CODEPINK
-San Francisco Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
-Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
-FedUpUSA.org
-Common Security Club
-David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund*: "New Way Forward is visionary, simple, and important."

From around the web:

Consumers Union and ANWF Letter on Regulation

Alternet spearheads an ANWF petition to be delivered to Congress

Matt Yglesias: Rallies are being planned... the moment of crisis seems like the only time when the political power of the financial sector can feasibly be overcome. If we say we’re going to deal with this later, after we’ve fixed the immediate problems, then attention is going to wander on to other things'

*Groups listed for identification purposes only

Coverage Roundup:

To speak with someone at ANWF, please email tyc@anewwayforward.org or donnydonny@gmail.com. Thanks.
We need to keep protesting, keep rallying, keep fighting, until we have a more equitable economy and individual power dominates our democracy.