Our ACTION PLANWe 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:1. Break up with the Big 4 BanksThe 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 two things you can do: address too-big-to-fail and push to democratize the Fed. 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 have already pledged their support to break up the banks - join us. 
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.
2. 400 ActionsWe need to keep protesting, keep rallying, keep fighting, until we have a more equitable economy and individual power dominates our democracy.
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 protests that 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 on William Greider's seminal book on the Fed, "Secrets of the Temple", or Nomi Prins' "It Takes a Pillage", flyering at local events, protesting at big banks or city halls, and hosting forums. OUTREACH MATERIALS
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Subject: Ignore big banks' lobbying if you can People dislike how the government is rebuilding our economy in the same way it was taken down -- Sec. Geithner is transferring more wealth to the financial elites as the stock market inflates. It's time the public got a say about our tax money - sign up on the site to make your disapproval public too. Stop the banksters -- please forward widely. Take a first step, -Donny Shaw, A New Way Forward |
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