[GPSCC-chat] suggestions

[Caroline Yacoub]

Sounds good to me. If we could get them printed by Thursday, we could maybe 
spend some time at the  potluck at Fred's folding them, and people who wanted to 
stand outside banks and pass them out could get some.
Caroline




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From: spencerg <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
To: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>; Betsy Wolf-Graves 
<betsy237 at prodsyse.com>
Sent: Thu, November 25, 2010 8:43:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] suggestions

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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