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This Valentine’s Day, Break Up With Your Abusive Bank!
February 11, 2010 – 11:12 am
This Valentine’s Day, Break Up With Your Abusive Bank!

For Valentine’s Day, The Public Breaks Up With the Big Banks in a Boycott and Outreach Movement

This Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to end your abusive relationship with the big banks that have …

Tell the Senate: We Need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
February 1, 2010 – 3:45 pm
Tell the Senate: We Need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Toasters, toys, Tylenol, title loans: one of these things is not like the others. We have government agencies in charge of regulating many consumer products, but not nearly enough attention is given to financial products.  …

Take Action: Put the Banks on Notice
January 21, 2010 – 10:09 am
Take Action: Put the Banks on Notice

Wall Street banks threw our economy into crisis. Bailing them out cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s time to say enough, and send the banks a final notice.
Since banks won’t rein themselves in, …

Move Your Money!
January 10, 2010 – 10:46 am
Move Your Money!

Financial reform activists from around the nation are fueling a new campaign that encourages consumers to “Move Your Money” from the big bailed-out banks to small local banks.
Your accounts with the big Wall Street banks …

“Joy to the Banks” and Other Carols
December 21, 2009 – 3:37 pm
“Joy to the Banks” and Other Carols

This holiday season, sing your displeasure with big banks and the  way they wrecked the economy by joining in with these Bailout Carols (pdf) thanks to our friends at National People’s Action.  They’ve put together …

It’s Not Such a Wonderful Life…
December 2, 2009 – 9:04 am
It’s Not Such a Wonderful Life…

BanksterUSA.org has made the clever video below using everyone’s favorite holiday movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” to remind us of the woes facing many families this holiday season.
In the midst of so much foreclosure, debt, …