Category Archives: Actions

Video: SNL Presidents Unite to Support the CFPA

Click here to watch!   Then call your Senators toll free (866-544-7573) and tell them to support financial reform. Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond, the Saturday Night Live actors who have played every American president since Gerald Ford

CALL THE SENATE

Tell the Senate to work for us, not for bankers! Join thousands of activists from around the country and call your Senators toll-free to tell them that we need real financial reform that will hold the big banks accountable. Call your Senators toll-free today! 866-544-7573

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 a stranglehold on our country. They’ve been lying, gambling, cheating

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.  With your help, that can change. Financial reform passed the

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, the government is going to have to do it. 

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 are unwittingly helping to fund the fight against reform. 

“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 a few songs that reflect consumers’ displeasure with being left