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Ellen Brown: Cooperative Banking is the Exciting Wave of the Future

2012-05-23T16:22:44Z

Globally, a burgeoning movement for local, cooperatively owned and community-oriented banks is blazing the trail toward a new, sustainable form of banking.

Read more: Move Your Money, Cooperatives, Banks, Banking Industry, Business News

Gar Alperovitz: The Rise of the New Economy Movement

2012-05-22T12:17:16Z

The "New Economy Movement" is a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up.

Read more: Move Your Money, Economics, Activism, Economy, Business News

Gordon Whitman: Fed Up With Big Banks

2012-05-17T11:17:56Z

When individuals, religious institutions and local and state governments decide to move their money, it puts direct pressure on banks and on the federal government to change their policies. Cities and states have incredible leverage if they chose to use it.

Read more: Foreclosure, Big Banks, Los Angeles, New York City, Banking, Move Your Money, Banks, Bankers, Get Money Out, Credit Unions, Business News

Mary Bottari: 99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County

2012-04-30T16:32:46Z

The goal: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.

Read more: Bank Protests, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, Bank of America, Sallie Mae, Wal-Mart, Wisconsin Protests, Move Your Money, 99 Percent Spring, 99% Spring, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Business News

Dennis Santiago: Is Bank of America Working to Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?

2012-04-26T15:41:23Z

Bank of America is actually doing a number of things congruent with the emerging needs of the economy. What's not to like about a big bank that actually depends on the goodwill of millions of individual consumers for its survival? So how can one mess this up?

Read more: Move Your Money, Banking, Bank of America, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business News

Jake Blumgart: Wells Fargo and Other Megabanks Don't Care About Your Business

2012-04-24T11:41:11Z

If moving your money to a credit union won't make Bank of America or Wells Fargo small enough to fail, it is a rational consumer decision. Making the switch may not be a revolutionary act, but it will certainly make your life easier.

Read more: Move Your Money, Move Your Money Campaign, Dodd-Frank, Felix Salmon, Credit-Union-National-Association, Mike Konczal, Credit Unions, Business News

Mike Ryan: 'Once' The Broadway Musical Versus 'Once' The Film

2012-04-06T16:39:10Z

Last week, I attended the Broadway production of Once, which is based on the film version of Once. I do not attend Broadway musicals often, but (A) I liked the film version of "Once," which focused on these two unnamed, star-crossed, musically-gifted lovers and (B) I'm oddly fascinated by film's relation with Broadway. Regardless here are the seven things I learned while attending the Broadway production of Once.

Read more: Once, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Once the Musical, Steve Kazee, Move Your Money, Movie News, Entertainment News

'We'll Fight This To The Death': The Vicious Capitol Hill Battle Between Banks and Credit Unions

2012-03-22T14:16:40Z

WASHINGTON -- In early February, Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus called for a meeting between two of the most quietly influential interest groups in...

Read more: Corruption, Congress, Small Business, Icba, Community Banks, Lobbying, Economy, Bank Transfer Day, Barney Frank, Move Your Money, Jobs, Cuna, Small Banks, Politics, Video, Tbtf, Wall Street, Banks, Spencer Bachus, Credit Unions, Politics News

Gary Oakland: Why Credit Unions Matter

2012-03-20T12:18:18Z

Credit unions serve more than 90 million Americans and play a key role in supporting our economic recovery. Unfortunately, current law imposes requirements which unfairly penalize healthy credit unions for growing to meet the needs of their members.

Read more: Move Your Money, Banks, Banking, Jobs Act, Jobs Bill, Boeing Employees Credit Union, Becu, Credit Union, Credit Unions, Business News

Michael Winship: Giving Up Your Bank for Lent

2012-03-15T19:36:22Z

On Ash Wednesday, churches in San Francisco announced they were removing $10 million from Wells Fargo and called on the bank "to put an immediate freeze on its foreclosures and repent for their misconduct." The effort is part of several national campaigns to get consumers and community groups to remove their money from the big banks and transfer accounts to credit unions and smaller financial institutions. We're told that the banks, desperate when thrown a lifeline by taxpayers in 2008, are now stronger and better able to weather a crisis than they were. And yet, they continue to scream in protest and lobby on Capitol Hill against the ignominy of reform. Simple greed -- hey banks, how about giving that up for Lent?

Read more: Citigroup, Stress Tests, Community Banks, Move Your Money, Wells Fargo, Bank Stress Tests, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Reserve, Bank Transfer Day, Occupy Wall Street, Dodd-Frank, Business, Mortgages, Banking, Banks, Credit Unions, Money News

Churches To Big Banks: We're Mad As Hell

2012-03-12T13:04:32Z

For lent this year, some will inevitably give up the usual guilty pleasures like chocolate or meat. More than a few churches are taking a decidedly di...

Read more: Video, Church-Foreclosures, Churches Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Bank Transfer Day, Move Your Money, Business News, Church-Foreclosures-2011, Churches Moving Money, Bank of America Debit Card Fees, Business News

Big Banks Fee-Grab, While This Other Business Booms

2012-03-02T12:13:10Z

Credit unions are booming as big banks take increasingly desperate measures to make money off of consumers.

Membership in credit unions more than ...

Read more: Checking Accounts, Savings Account, Bank Fees, Bank Transfer Day, Move Your Money, Bank of America, Banks, Atm, Bank Account, Nonprofit Banking, Debit-Card Fees, Credit Unions, Money News

Want To Ditch Your Bank? You're Far From Alone

2012-02-27T06:59:00Z

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Nearly 10 percent of customers of U.S. banks moved their accounts last year, often after they became frustrated with fees and the...

Read more: Switching Bank Accounts, Video, Bank Fees, Switch Banks, Reuters, Bank Transfer Day, Move Your Money, Bank Customers, Big Banks, Transfer Day, Customer Service, Business News

Bank of America Can Charge You This Much In Fees In One Day

2012-02-23T10:55:16Z

Bank of America can lift at least $140 in fees off a customer in one day if he or she doesn't have enough money in the bank.

That is the high cost...

Read more: Richard Cordray, Checking Accounts, Bank Accounts, Bank Fees, Class Action Lawsuits, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Cfpb, Move Your Money, Bank of America, Overdraft Fees, Closing Bank Accounts, Debit Cards, Video, Business News

Dennis Santiago: Four More Bank Closures Mark the Week of January 27, 2012

2012-01-27T21:14:37Z

The general pattern of the FDIC closing banks with weak operating characteristics and deepening asset quality troubles continues. The FDIC shuttered four additional banks today bringing the 2012 count to seven.

Read more: Move Your Money, Dennis Santiago, Banking Crisis, Economic Recovery, Institutional Risk Analytics, Business News

Citibank Gets The Message: 'Start Serving Clients'

2012-01-27T11:57:24Z

Big banks are realizing they may actually have to pay attention to customers to keep them.

An unprecedented number of people dumped billion-dollar ...

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Vikram Pandit, Occupy Wall Street, Bank Transfer Day, Bank of America, Citibank, Move Your Money, Banks, Big Banks, Business News

City Looks To Move It's Money

2012-01-25T18:28:40Z

The recommendation not to renew the city's contract will be addressed at the Jan. 31 council meeting, when the council will decide whether or not to s...

Read more: Wells Fargo Bank, Wells Fargo, Berkeley, City-of-Berkeley, State and Local Government, Move Your Money, Move Your Money Campaign, Municipal Finance, Move Your Money Day, Berkeley California, Politics News

Alison Rose Levy: Dylan Ratigan, Arianna Huffington, and Deepak Chopra Want Money Out of Politics

2012-01-12T18:22:56Z

"We are being bamboozled by lobbyists, it's time for democracy to be restored," Deepak Chopra told his guests, Arianna Huffington and Dylan Ratigan at a DeepakHomeBase (DHB) event this week.

Read more: Alison Rose Levy, Deepak Chopra, Money in Politics, Occupythecourts, Dylan Ratigan, Citizens United, Arianna Huffington, Deepakhomebasecom, Movetoamend, Move Your Money, Corporate Personhood, Get Money Out, #Occupywallstreet, Greedy Bastards, Politics News

Caitlin Dally: Let's Move it All!: Why Universities and Other Institutions Should Participate in Bank Transfer Movement

2011-12-12T16:36:26Z

My university and many other Jesuit institutions uphold a great standard in their commitment to fighting for social justice. Is investing in corporate banks, which foreclose on families who they purposefully target with sub-prime mortgage loans, socially just?

Read more: Bank Transfer Day, Banking, Move Your Money, Banks, College Banking, Responsible Endowments Coalition, Credit Unions, College News

Don McNay: Why Occupy Needs to Work With the One-and-a-Half Percenters

2011-11-28T10:22:14Z

If Americans set up their lives so that we depend less on Wall Street and Washington, both entities will notice. We will be hitting them in the place where it hurts the most: their wallet.

Read more: McNay Settlement Group, The American Dream, 99 Percenters, Mayor Bloomberg, Wealth Without Wall Street, Move Your Money, Don McNay, Occupy Movement, Main Street, Occupy Wall Street, Move Your Money Campaign, Small Busines America, Arianna Huffington, Wall Street, Business News

Angry Churches Pull Money From Big Banks

2011-11-23T16:01:33Z

By Josef Kuhn
Religion News Service

(RNS) A small but growing number of religious communities across the country are removing their money from Wal...

Read more: New Bottom Line Campaign, New Bottom Line Clergy, New Bottom Line Move Your Money, Occupy-Faith, New Bottom Line Congregation, New Bottom Line, Move Your Money, The-New-Bottom-Line, New Bottom Line Churches, Religion News

Zoe Mendelson: A Massive Positive Impact Potential: 5 Reasons Colleges and Universities Should Move Their Money

2011-11-18T09:15:16Z

By keeping their massive endowments in big banks, colleges inherently support the behaviors of those banks and everything those banks invest in. And those things happen to constitute the seeds sowed from which we now reap this crisis.

Read more: Move Your Money, College Banking, College Endowment, Bank Transfer Day, Banking, Banks, College, Credit Unions, College News

Carolyn Kay: The 99-99-99 Plan

2011-11-15T16:29:59Z

Neighborhood credit unions could become an alternative to big banks for Chicago residents, if Second Ward Alderman Bob Fioretti is successful in passing an ordinance he introduced yesterday.

Read more: Move Your Money, Banks, Bank Transfer Day, Credit Unions, Chicago News

Sujatha Fernandes: The Imaginative Power of 99% Politics: Occupy Wall Street Spreads Uptown

2011-11-14T13:32:16Z

The 99% is a heterogeneous construct. Factors of race, ethnicity, age, and privilege constitute real obstacles to collaboration, a problem compounded by the tendency of groups to work within enclaves.

Read more: Occupy Wall Street, Black Voices, Harlem, 99 Percent, Harlem Gentrification, Race and the 99 Percent, Ows, Move Your Money, Black Voices News

Tens Of Thousands Joined Credit Unions On Bank Transfer Day

2011-11-09T09:08:25Z

Tens of thousands of Americans joined credit unions on Saturday, as the Bank Transfer Day movement encouraged consumers to move their money out of big...

Read more: Video, Bank Fees, Occupy LA Bank Transfer Day Saturday, Credit-Union-National-Association, Bank-News, Bank Transfer Day, Move Your Money, Business News, Big Banks, Credit Unions, Bank of America Debit Card Fees, Business News