Join the Fight to Stop Bank Bullies

[Joanne98]

Be part of A New Way Forward's nationwide movement to enforce antitrust laws

A New Way Forward, a citizen action group created to pressure large national banks to play fair, will hold a series of events nationwide on June 10. In addition to teach-ins, protests and rallies, the group will screen its Economic Crisis 2009 video.

A New Way Forward formed in April of 2008 as a "pact we're making as citizens to not continue to let Wall Street act like our masters. The point is winning the battle with the banks can change politics as usual."

If you have questions or are seeking more info, visit A New Way Forward's website.

http://www.alternet.org/rss/2/59245/join_the_fight_to_stop_bank_bullies/

http://www.anewwayforward.org/demonstrations/

National Economic Crisis Video Screenings & Forums

The bailouts are widening the gap between the rich and poor. Our government has spent trillions of our dollars to prop up a banking system that has failed the country. Wall St. needs to be stopped. We demand that our government break up the insolvent banks and never again let them get so big that they distort our politics and corrupt the economy.

During the week of June 8th, Americans will host national video screenings and town hall forums to learn about the crisis and begin working on restoring our economy and democracy.

Obama's election proved that the American people are "too big to fail". Now, we need to work for the structural change that we can truly believe in - DOWNLOAD THE ANWF-EXCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO on the economic crisis and get your event started.

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To get us on the right track, we advocate for structural change to the financial sector so that it serves the public and enhances our democracy. Sign up to a New Way Forward to get updates and share your ideas.

http://www.anewwayforward.org/demonstrations/

[clear eye]

1. This is not a Socialist Workers Party front, or some such,

as I wondered when I read the OP. Their site shows the following founding members:

Counselors-Mike Lux, Open Left, Honorary Co-Chair
-Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake, Honorary Co-Chair
-David Sirota, Syndicated Columnist, Author
-Joe Trippi, Change Congress, co-founder
-Zephyr Teachout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Duke University, Dean Campaign
-Joe Costello, Energy, Communications, and Political Economy
-William Greider, "Come Home, America", National Correspondent, The Nation
-Yves Smith, Economist, Naked Capitalism

Sponsors-The Working Group on Extreme Inequality
-Institute for Policy Studies, Program on Inequality and Common Good
-Jerome Armstrong, MyDD, founder: "The corporate bailouts have become a complete political disaster."
-Alternet
-AFSCME - Pittsburgh
-Rural Votes
-California Reinvestment Coalition
-New Paltz Women in Black
-Economic Justice Committee of New Paltz and Vicinity for Obama
-Portland Jobs with Justice
-David Dayen, D-Day, founder and Hullabaloo*, blogger
-David Swanson, After Downing Street
-Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
-Cleveland Committee on Corporations, Law & Democracy
-Progressive Democrats of America
-Democrats.com
-Grassroots Change
-Public Accountability Initiative
-Liberty Tree
-The Voters
-Wake County Young Democrats
-New Haven Peace Council
-Consumers for Peace
-Billionaires for Bush
-BuzzFlash
-CODEPINK
-San Francisco Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
-Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
-FedUpUSA.org
-Common Security Club
-ProsperityAgenda.us
-David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund*: "New Way Forward is visionary, simple, and important."

Since, in the recent past, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has advocated the same measures as this organization lists, I hope he will sign up as a "counselor" as well, and really show the legitimacy of their agenda. What a terrific plan for saving our economy from the bottom up!

[clear eye]

2. ANWF also has a very enlightening video to download on the banking/economic crisis.

It requires Quick Time, and downloads rather slowly. The first part, even though they go slowly, is hard to keep straight in your head since the situation involved many steps, but even if you can't remember the whole thing exactly, you learn quite a bit.

It's the last 2/3s that really opens your eyes as Stiglitz and a UK economist both say that if we want anything other than misery, we must, through gov't regulations and seizure of control, change the direction of the major banking decisions for at least a while.

It is 33 min. long and available to download here: http://anewwayforward.org/doit.php