[GPSCC-chat] suggestions

[spencerg]

Happy Thanksgiving (Día de Acción de Gracias, in Spanish)


What do you think about a tri-fold using the "No on 14" template, 
something like the following:


*** NOTE:  If we are going to have an impact by Dec. 7, we need to move 
very fast with this.


HEADLINE:  Dec. 7:  International "Move Your Bank" Day(1)

(1) -> footnote referencing something discussing bank protests in Europe 
and elsewhere planned for Dec. 7.


INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE:  If you don't like your money being used to 
destabilize the international economy to make the rich richer and the 
rest of us poorer, consider moving your money to purely local credit 
unions, savings and loans or banks.


*** Then follow this with a table of local institutions, names, 
addresses, web sites, phone numbers AND some symbols that summarize 
their investment policies and some assurance that they have NOT been 
involved in "liar's loans" and similar abusive practices.


*** OR refer people to a web site that contains such a list.


*** NEEDED:  I need help compiling this list and checking to make sure 
that the financial institutions listed are actually clean, i.e., have 
NOT been involved in the most egregious, abusive practices.


ADDITIONAL CONTENT:  Then we could say something about the repeal of 
Glass-Stiegel and the Republican promise to make further gifts at 
taxpayer expense to the financial industry.  This should include, I 
think, the plot I previously distributed showing the profits in the 
financial sector as a percent of total US domestic corporate profits 
jumping from 15 percent historically to between 30 and 40 percent over 
the past decade since the repeal of Glass-Stiegel.  We should include, I 
think, a reference to bais in the media, e.g., stating that the popular 
perception of a liberal bias to the media is equivalent to saying that 
the media routinely bites the hand that feeds them.  Then note that 
commercial media is a business and lose money when advertisers decrease 
their advertising.  The only way the media can survive doing that is by 
getting a substantially larger audience, which rarely happens when the 
public believes the media have a liberal bias.  Then briefly describe 
the Herman and Chomsky worth and unworthy subjects model and reference 
Wikipedia articles on media bias.


       Comments?
       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


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On 11/24/2010 8:38 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:
> Spencer named the topic - abusive banks.
> Caroline named the places: outside of banks.
> And abusive banks triggered "state bank" in my mind.
>
> I have not received a response from the high school senior
> from presentation high school as yet.  Her last email - on Monday -
> was she would talk it over with her friends.
>
> And Andrea has reported that "the printer" is working - the one
> that was given to us and is now in her garage.
>
> Are there any other ideas we could use in the future?
>
> Jim Doyle
>
>
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