Move Your Money Campaign Grows to Divest From Big Banks & Support Local Banks, Credit Unions

Move Your Money Campaign Grows to Divest From Big Banks & Support Local Banks, Credit Unions

November 2, 2011 in Bank of America, Citigroup, Direct Action, Fraudclosures, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Move Your Money, OccupyTogether, Video, Wells Fargo

     

As participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement continue protesting the record profits made by banks bailed out by taxpayer money, a group of grassroots activists are hitting America’s largest banks — including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — where it hurts most: The wallet. Dubbing this Saturday, Nov. 5 as “Bank Transfer Day,” activists are urging people to move their money out of the banks deemed “too big to fail” in to local community banks and credit unions. Democracy Now! speaks with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki.

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