AlterNet: This Valentine’s Day, Break Up With Your Bank

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Posted by Daniela Perdomo at 2:35 pm
February 11, 2010

This Valentine’s Day, Break Up With Your Bank


Ever get the feeling your bank is lying to you? Covering up for something? Avoiding your calls and questions?

If you answered yes to any (or all) of these questions, chances are you and your bank are in a one-sided relationship in which you are doing all the work, and they’re reaping all the rewards.

This Valentine’s Day, why not just end the suffering and break up with your bank?

The apt metaphor is behind the new campaign called “Break Up With Your Bank.” It’s the brainchild of A New Way Forward (ANWF), the grassroots campaign founded last year and which has been fighting for structural reform of the financial sector ever since.
Taking a cue from the populist power behind the Move Your Money campaign, which urges Americans to move their money from the big banks to local community banks and credit unions, Break Up With Your Bank is calling on exploited bank consumers to call attention to the abusive practices they suffer at the hands of bailed-out too-big-to-fail banks. ..............(more)

THe complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/11/this-valentines-day-break-up-with-your-bank/