This week’s bonus actions are making the airwaves.  Folks around the country are turning up to protest the huge bonuses going to top executives at the banks which sank our economy and are fighting hard …

This week, the New York Times editorilized about Citibank’s exit from the bailout program.  Although this seems to be good news on the surface, they note that in fact, our financial system is creating ever …

For Immediate Release:
Contact: Taylor Lincoln (202) 454-5197
Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741
Public Citizen Calls for Reforms; More Than 20 Protests to Be Held Around Country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The CEOs of 10 Wall Street firms that either failed …

AFR coalition member Travis Plunkett of the Consumer Federation of America and Professor Michael Greenberger discussed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 on NPR today.  Listen here.
The House takes up the …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: December 11, 2009

House Advances Financial Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Agency
A Major Step for American Families

Washington, D.C. – Americans for Financial Reform released the following statement upon passage of …

The power of the people. Earlier this fall, the JOURNAL traveled to Chicago to check in with protestors outside the American Banking Association’s …