Total moved out of big banks $2104164

A Plan For Change - Be a Leader

 

Our ACTION PLAN and our flyers

We need leaders like you. We need to start having conversations about how we can act locally and be really effective at stopping the largest banks on the road to infallibility -- you can help bring people together to solve that very problem. ANWF is working on too-big-to-fail legislation -- see our policy page for more info. ANWF is also working on the ground with you. You have an opportunity to be a leader and make history, to make real reform happen. We're at a crucial time in the fight and it is people who fight for a decent, working democracy. We can each fundamentally break things up for the better in our own cities. Here's how:

The big 4 banks are dangerous to our democracy and economy. If Congress won't break them up, we need to fundamentally break up with the big banks - Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Wells, Fargo, Bank of America (and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs).

Break up with your bank by moving your bank and credit card accounts over to a small or credit union bank.

While you're here, there are three things you can do: address too-big-to-fail and push to democratize the Fed. 

(A.) Pledge your support to break up the banks. Everyone needs to know that there are two looming issues keeping us from having a decent, growing economy that benefits all Americans. Too-big-to-fail dangerously distorts the market for the extreme profit of a just a few, kills competition, and takes down the country when they fail. 60,000 people have already pledged - join us.

(B.) The Fed must be democratized. They should not have new powers to regulate risk in the financial industry because they have turned what needs to be an instrument for public good, the central bank, into a feeding trough for the banks. If given more and new powers to watch over the big banks, the largest banks will continue to get away with the largest ripoff in history and profit more off of the American people. Download these petitions and get your friends and family to sign on too.

(C.) Email and write Congress and spread the word through your local paper and your local/national bloggers. We've set up the Write Them Center so you can easily email Congress and send a letter to the editor to your local paper. We need your help to reach out to bloggers and get them to post about the importance of breaking up the banks. GO to the center and get involved easily and quickly.

 

400 Actions

We need to keep protesting, keep rallying, keep fighting, until we have a more equitable economy and individual power dominates our democracy.
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Every month, we'll make a new push - sign up and we'll keep you posted on upcoming actions in your city.

More importantly, you can help start or list events in your city and start organizing your city to convince other people and our local government to move their money from the big banks and into small, local banks. We can keep creating much needed dialogue on the crisis by starting a book club, help to build local mailing lists, flyering at local events, protesting at big banks or city halls, and hosting forums.

 

Local Press Releases

Tell everyone in your state -- adapt and print out these sample press release for your event and send it to your local papers. The more people do this, the better chances of getting coverage. Please submit any press releases to us at hello@anewwayforward.org.


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Joe, Donny
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Zephyr Teachout
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4/11 Petition
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Consumers U/Regulation
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OUTREACH MATERIALS

These materials walk you through organizing any event. We promise. Forum organizing materials:

1. Town Hall Planning Guide -- makes it all real. See it or download:

2. Town Hall and Video Screening Flyer: download

3. Town Hall Program Download

4. Email Announcement Download

5. Forum Sponsorship Form used to sign up organizational sponsors Download

6. Logos for t-shirts, pins, etc. white background or black. Logo on white background



FURTHER READING Materials

Stiglitz on the Causes of the Crisis An article on CNN.com: Commentary: "How to prevent the next Wall Street crisis." Download article.

Ten Principles by Taleb Financial Times article: "Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world". Adobe Acrobat format. Download article.

Simon Johnson on How Oligarchs Keep Governments from Solving Economic Crises The Atlantic Monthly: "The Quite Coup". Adobe Acrobat format. Download article.

Federal Reserve of Kansas City CEO, Thomas Hoenig on Failed Banks Paper: "Too Big has Failed". Adobe Acrobat Format. Download paper.

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on NationalizationNYTimes Op-ed: "Why Nationalize". Adobe Acrobat Format. Download article.



Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Exist
flyer (pdf)
 
Lou
17x11 Color Poster (pdf)
Lou Campagna
 
Lou
17x11 B/W Poster (.ai)
Lou Campagna
 
Louis
bank logo (.ai)
Matthew Skomarovsky
 
Louis
bank logo (.ai)
Matthew Skomarovsky
 
Louis
bank logo (.ai)
Matthew Skomarovsky
 
Louis
bank logo (.ai)
Matthew Skomarovsky
 
Slot
cartoon (pdf)
Crytal Regan
 
All States Flyer
8.5*11 leaflet
Bruce Hartford
anahata
1-page background (jpg)
Barbara in New Jersey
 
Slot
flyer (jpg)
 
Louis
cartoon (pdf)
Chris
 
Slot
flyer (jpg)
Steve Burns
 
Slot
flyer (pdf)
 
All States Flyer
8.5*11 banner (pdf)
 
Louis
flyer (pdf)
Louis Campagna
 




April 11th flyer gallery

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Raleigh, NC
Sample: Very large poster for rally
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Raleigh, NC
8.5*11
designed by Jeremy Richir from Raleigh, NC
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All States Flyer
8.5*11
designed by Tiffiniy with Morgan's badge
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Too Big to Fail Flyer
8.5*11
designed by Morgan
PDF (324 KB)
Trustbusting Flyer
8.5*11
designed by Morgan
PDF (322 KB)
Your Money Flyer
8.5*11 (pdf)
designed by Morgan
Louis
8.5*11 (pdf)
designed by Louis Campagna
 
Louis
cards (pdf)
designed by Louis Campagna
 
Louis

designed by Louis Campagna
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Austin
 

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