"Americans for Financial Reform" in the Streets- Events for Week of Dec 14th

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Americans for Financial Reform

Americans for Financial Reform and Americans for Fairness in Lending (AFFIL) are partnering to reform the nation’s lending industry and financial system to protect Americans’ neighborhoods, homes and pocketbooks.

For too long, the rules of Wall Street have been written by the bankers themselves. This year, that has to change.

We are a coalition of over two hundred national, state and local consumer, labor, business, retiree, investor, community and civil rights organizations that have come together to spearhead a campaign for real reform in our banking and financial system



Week of Dec 14th


Listed below is a growing list of places organizing events (check back daily as this list is growing over next few days!):

* Austin, Texas: Thursday, Dec 17, noon at 15th and Guadalupe in front of Wells Fargo. Contact Andy Wilson for more details: [phone]
* Boston, Massachusetts
* Chicago, Illinois: Thursday, Dec 17. Contact Jen Hall for more details: [phone]
* Cincinnati, Ohio: Wednesday, Dec 16.
* Columbus, Ohio
* Denver, Colorado: Thursday, Dec 17. Contact Carolyn Siegel for more details: [phone]
* Hackensack, New Jersey: Saturday, Dec 19, noon at Citibank.
* Indianapolis, Indiana: Contact Ronetta Spalding for more details: [phone]
* Los Angeles, California
* Miami, Florida
* New York, New York: Wednesday, Dec 16, noon at Broad Street and Wall Street. Contact Ann Sullivan for more details: [phone]
* Orlando, Florida: Contact Stephanie Porta for more details: [phone]
* Pontiac, Michigan: Wednesday, Dec 16. Contact Todd Cook for more details: [phone]
* Portland, Oregon: Thursday, Dec 17.
* Providence, Rhode Island
* Richmond, Virginia: Thursday, Dec 17. Contact Jenny Lawson for more details: [phone].
* San Francisco, California: Thursday, Dec 17.
* San Jose, California
* Seattle, Washington: Contact Angela Omulepu for more details: [phone]
* Washington, DC: Monday, Dec 14, 11 am at 1500 Pennsylvania Ave NW in front of US Treasury. Please contact Rachel Anderson for more details: [phone]
* Wilmingon, Delaware: Friday, Dec 18, 6-9 pm at 408 East 8th St, Wilmington. Contact Darlene Battle for more details: [phone]

Send email to: [e-mail] for details about the actions planned in the cities listed above.

http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2009/12/demand-wall-street-use-150-billion-bonuses-to-help-families-recover/

National Organizations

* A New Way Forward
* AARP
* ACORN
* Adler and Colvin
* AFL-CIO
* AFSCME
* Alliance For Justice
* American Income Life Insurance
* Americans for Democratic Action, Inc.
* Americans for Fairness in Lending
* Americans United for Change
* Business for Shared Prosperity
* Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
* Campaign for America’s Future
* Campaign Money
* Center for Digital Democracy
* Center for Economic and Policy Research
* Center for Economic Progress
* Center for Responsible Lending
* Center for Justice and Democracy
* Center of Concern
* Change to Win
* Clean Yield Asset Management
* Coastal Enterprises Inc.
* Color of Change
* Common Cause
* Communications Workers of America
* Community Development Transportation Lending Services
* Consumer Action
* Consumer Association Council
* Consumers for Auto Safety and Reliability
* Consumer Federation of America
* Consumer Watchdog
* Consumers Union
* Corporation for Enterprise Development
* CREDO Mobile
* CTW Investment Group
* Demos
* Economic Policy Institute
* Essential Action
* Green America
* Greenlining Institute
* Good Business International
* HNMA Funding
* Home Actions
* Housing Counseling Services
* Information Press
* Institute for Global Communications
* Institute for Policy Studies: Global Economy Project
* International Brotherhood of Teamsters
* Institute of Women’s Policy Research
* Krull & Company
* Laborers’ International Union of North America
* Lake Research Partners
* Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
* Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
* MoveOn.org Political Action
* NASCAT
* National Association of Consumer Advocates
* National Association of Investment Professionals
* National Association of Neighborhoods
* National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
* National Community Reinvestment Coalition
* National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients)
* National Consumers League
* National Council of La Raza
* National Fair Housing Alliance
* National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
* National Housing Institute
* National Housing Trust
* National Housing Trust Community Development Fund
* National NeighborWorks Association
* National Training and Information Center/National Peoples Action
* National Council of Womens Organizations
* Next Step
* OMB Watch
* Opportunity Finance Network
* Partners for the Common Good
* National People’s Action (NPA)
* PICO
* Progress Now Action
* Progressive States Network
* Poverty and Race Research Action Council
* Public Citizen
* Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law
* SEIU
* State Voices
* Taxpayer’s for Common Sense
* The Association for Housing and Neighborhood Development
* The Fuel Savers Club
* The Seminal
* UNET
* Union Plus
* U.S. PIRG
* Unitarian Universalist for a Just Economic Community
* United Food and Commercial Workers
* United States Student Association
* USAction
* Veris Wealth Partners
* Veterans Chanmber of Commerce
* We The People Now
* Western States Center
* Woodstock Institute
* Working America
* World Privacy Forum

State Organizations

* 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women (CO)
* Alaska PIRG
* Arizona PIRG
* Arizona Advocacy Network
* Arizonans for Responsible Lending
* Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (NY)
* Audubon Partnership for Economic Development LDC (New York, NY)
* BAC Funding Consortium Inc. (Miami, FL)
* Beech Capital Venture Corporation (Philadelphia, PA)
* Bell Policy Center (CO)
* California PIRG
* California Reinvestment Coalition
* Center for Media and Democracy
* Century Housing Corporation (Culver City, CA)
* Changer(NY)
* Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation and Improvement Corporation (NY)
* Chicago Community Loan Fund (Chicago, IL)
* Chicago Community Ventures (Chicago, IL)
* Chicago Consumer Coalition
* Citizen Potawatomi CDC (Shawnee, OK)
* Coalition on Homeless Housing in Ohio
* Colorado AFL-CIO
* Colorado PIRG
* Colorado AFL-CIO
* Colorado Center on Law and Policy
* Community Capital Development
* Community Capital Fund (Bridgeport, CT)
* Community Capital of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
* Community Development Financial Institution of the Tohono O’odham Nation (Sells, AZ)
* Community Redevelopment Loan and Investment Fund, (Atlanta, GA)
* Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina
* Community Resource Group (Fayetteville, AR)
* Connecticut Association for Human Services
* Connecticut PIRG
* Consumer Assistance Council
* Cooper Square Committee (New York, NY)
* Cooperative Fund of New England (Wilmington, NC)
* Corporacion de Desarrollo Economico de Ceiba (Ceiba, PR)
* CWA 7777 (CO)
* Delta Foundation, Inc. (Greenville, MS)
* Economic Opportunity Fund (EOF) (Philadelphia, PA)
* Empire Justice Center (NY)
* Enterprises, Inc., Berea KY
* Fair Housing Contact Service OH
* Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises, Inc. (Berea, KY)
* Fitness and Praise Youth Development, Inc. (Baton Rouge, LA)
* Florida Consumer Action Network
* Florida PIRG
* Forward Community Investments (Madison, WI)
* Funding Partners for Housing Solutions (Ft. Collins, CO)
* Georgia PIRG
* Grow Iowa Foundation (Greenfield, IA)
* Homewise, Inc. (Santa Fe, NM)
* Idaho Chapter, National Association of Social Workers
* Idaho Community Action Network
* Idaho Nevada CDFI (Pocatello, ID)
* Illinois PIRG
* Impact Capital (Seattle, WA)
* Indiana PIRG
* Information Press (CA)
* Iowa PIRG
* Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
* JobStart Chautauqua, Inc. (Mayville, NY)
* Keystone Research Center
* La Casa Federal Credit Union (Newark, NJ)
* Low Income Investment Fund (San Francisco, CA)
* Long Island Housing Services NY
* MaineStream Finance (Bangor, ME)
* Maryland PIRG
* Massachusetts Consumers’ Coalition
* Massachusetts Fair Housing Center
* MASSPIRG
* MichiganPIRG
* Midland Community Development Corporation (Midland, TX)
* Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation (Detroit Lakes, MN)
* Mile High Community Loan Fund (Denver, CO)
* Missouri PIRG
* Montana Community Development Corporation (Missoula, MT)
* Montana PIRG
* Mortgage Recovery Service Center of L.A.
* Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project
* New Hampshire PIRG
* New Jersey Community Capital (Trenton, NJ)
* New Jersey Citizen Action
* New Jersey PIRG
* New Mexico PIRG
* New York PIRG
* New York City AIDS Housing Network
* Next Step (MN)
* NOAH Community Development Fund, Inc. (Boston, MA)
* Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY)
* Nonprofits Assistance Fund (Minneapolis, MN)
* North Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations
* North Carolina PIRG
* Northern Community Investment Corporation (St. Johnsbury, VT)
* Northside Community Development Fund (Pittsburgh, PA)
* Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (Columbus, OH)
* Ohio PIRG
* Oregon State PIRG
* Our Oregon
* PennPIRG
* Piedmont Housing Alliance (Charlottesville, VA)
* Rhode Island PIRG
* The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
* Rural Community Assistance Corporation (West Sacramento, CA)
* Rural Organizing Project OR
* San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority
* Seattle Economic Development Fund dba Community Capital Development
* SEIU Local 105 (Colorado)
* Siouxland Economic Development Corporation (Sioux City, IA)
* Southern Bancorp (Arkadelphia, AR)
* TexPIRG
* The Association for Housing and Neighborhood Development
* The Fair Housing Council of Central New York
* The Help Network
* The Loan Fund (Albuquerque, NM)
* Third Reconstruction Institute (NC)
* Vermont PIRG
* Village Capital Corporation (Cleveland, OH)
* Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
* Virginia Poverty Law Center
* War on Poverty – Florida
* WashPIRG
* Westchester Residential Oppurtunities Inc. NY
* Wigamig Owners Loan Fund, Inc. (Lac du Flambeau, WI)
* WISPIRG


To get your organization involved, read our Call to Action and Contact Us.

http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/about/our-coalition/

[azul]

1. Nice. With that many organizations going after banking reform

how can this get organized to get a petition for an initiative on the ballot, say in California or some other states, that would outlaw corporate influence in politics.

Get a powerful law on the books in some state that makes it clear that corporations are not "persons" legally, and make the supreme court confront it and have to rule on it.

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2. This is the first I've visited their website.

We sure wouldn't know much about them from any of the usual corp MSM.

Bill Moyers covered them just recently:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x502408

Probably lots of DUers have drawn attention to them in recent months. The above event dates are just a FYI for people in those cities.

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3. Kicking for more eyes. The one in *DC* is tomorrow.

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