[Street] Banking Meeting
Kevin Maley
kevinmaley at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 21:57:47 EST 2012
Hi everyone,
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can keep this off the other lists for those who don't want to be on it and
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Below is a summary of the meeting we had tonight, and are meeting again
next *Wednesday at 7pm, location tbd.*
The objective of the meeting was to define what we were going to do with
this working group under the notion that we need to change the status quo,
and change the banking system as we know it. It has become the epitome of
corruption and what is wrong with this country, ranging from the huge
concentration of power among a handful of mega-banks, massive deregulation
and fraud that destroyed the global economy, destructive investments in
companies that destroy the ecology of the planet or contribute to violent
oppression, exploitation of their own customers and employees, huge profits
with little or no taxes being paid (sometimes tax rebates), massive looting
of the Treasury, and complete corruption of the political system to the
point where Senator Dick Durban once said, speaking of the banks influence
in the Senate "Frankly, they own the
place<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html>
".
So noting change is necessary, and agreeing that we want actions in the
short, mid and long term, we mapped out four big buckets:Regulate the
Banks, Political Corruption, Banking Practices, Financial/Housing Crisis,
in which we placed a lot of grievances, topics and issue areas we felt were
important. A fifth category, Solutions, holds a lot of ideas we want to
push for *how* to "change the system as we know it".
What we want to do between now in the next meeting is look to the issue
areas we defined and think of Action Items, Campaigns, Tactics, Goals and
other Ideas. I think it is important we come up with an overarching
goal/mission statement that can guide us as we start acting on certain
areas. We are looking to do stuff quickly and get stuff to rally around, as
well as bring issues on the agenda in the 2012 elections and in general
build lasting and sustained campaigns for change.
So whether or not you are able to make Wednesday's meeting, please take a
look at the list below, consider areas you want to focus on, and use the
three questions below to guide you as we work on strategy, planning and
action for the next meeting:
Questions for next time:
- What can we message?
- What will excite people?
- What will affect change?
Goals:
- *Regulate the banks*
- Derivatives
- Usury
- restore glass-stegall
- Tobin tax
- revoking corporate personhood
- Bank fees
- Consumer protection
- Money laundering
- Tax reform
- Predatory lending (new forms of banking, Walmart)
-* Political Corruption*
- Campaign finance
- Lobbying
- Selling of politics
- Revolving door
- *Banking Practice*
- Fossil fuels
- Dirty investments
- *Financial/Housing Crisis*
- Stop the evictions - moratorium
- *Solutions*
- Credit unions state banks
- Rebuilding communities
- Living wage
- Require banks to reinvest in worker cooperatives
- Divest MA from mega-banks
- Create state bank
- Divest the state from mega-banks
- State bank in MA
- HIP investor
- *Messaging*
- Talking points
- Fighting for the little guy/main street
- *Action Items:*
* - Tax Day*
* - Pressure Obama on the Banks - Pressure government*
- MBTA campaign
* - Election 2012 - MA *
* - Pay attention to campaign appearances*
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*Overarching Goals:*
- End the banking system as we know it
Questions for next time:
- What can we message?
- What will excite people?
- What will affect change?
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