The quiet revolution - psssssst.... MOVE YOUR MONEY!....pass it on.

[Dover]

Take Obama's advice and move your money to a Community Bank. It will give
him the necessary leverage to bring reform and sends a huge message to the big boys of banking.

It's a movement!

http://moveyourmoney.info/

[Duer 157099]

1. Money? What money?

If only.

[Xenotime]

14. Exactly.. Only the rich have money to move.

[fire_in_the_middle]

2. furthermore, stop shopping at corporate interests, start buying local

and supplement from your own garden. Trade vegetables with your neighbors, invest in a couple of solar panels and an inverter, im sure you have an electrician in your neighborhood or community that is willing to work for a plate of cookies: working folks like homeade cookies.

Buy local. Be vocal.

saoirse nó bás

[Dover]

4. Futurist Alvin Toffler talked about moving away from our roles as consumers to 'pro-sumers'

(both producer and consumer of one's own goods) and the end of marketization as we've known it.

He talks about how our current economy will have to adjust to a world where people not only work for others but for their own consumption, which he refers to as the 'hidden economy' (very real production that doesn't show up in GNP though it increasingly influences it).

[westerebus]

6. Welcome to DU.

[ClassWarrior]

3. Really??... Unrecs in favor of major banks? Proof positive there are trolls in our midst.

NGU.

[lamp_shade]

5. I'm currently in the process.

[Froward69]

7. in 14 months... otherwise

I have a $250,000 pre payment penalty to BOA. I have already talked with my local Credit Union and they will be happy to refinance my entire business loan.

[starroute]

8. I've been with community banks for over 40 years

Ever since a college boy friend convinced me to switch to the place that operated out of a trailer but had better service and better rates.

I do most of my shopping at the local farmer's market and employ local businesses whenever I can. (Well, I'll admit to getting office supplies and shoes at the chains, but not much else.)

I've been trying to grow my own veggies, but I seem too have to much shade to get very far with peppers and tomatoes.

Is there anything I'm missing?

[Dover]

9. Sounds like I'm preaching to the choir...lol!

Good for you!

[pscot]

10. You might check this out

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/

I've been doing this for about a month, and as you can tell, I've become an evangelist. It really takes minimal effort, saves money and produces a superior product. If you search DU there are many, many threads on the process.

[starroute]

11. Thanks!

I've been using a bread-maker but haven't ever been completely happy with the result. This looks intriguing.

[eridani]

12. Also check out Cooking and Baking group here for lots of discussion on that

The Gardening and Home Repair forums are also useful.

[ClassWarrior]

13. .

[Dover]

15. Tonight Tavis Smiley interviewed Eugene Jarecki who helped organize the Move Your Money movement!

If you missed it tonight, the video is here >

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/201001/20100129.html

January 29, 2010
Author and award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki—one of the organizers of the Move Your Money campaign—says all revolutions are impossible until they happen.

An author and award-winning filmmaker, Eugene Jarecki tackles challenging topics. Walter Cronkite called his film Why We Fight—which won the '06 Peabody—"required viewing for every American." Jarecki is founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group dedicated to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy, and has been a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute. His book The American Way of War focuses on what can be done to get the U.S. back on track.

The quiet revolution. Keep the faith!

[Dover]

16. Check out the thread on this topic in GD - link here >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7590213