[GPSCC-chat] YOUR EXPERIENCE with Credit Unions? --> for anti-bank brochure; text: Tu, Nov. 30; fold @ pot luck, Th., Dec. 2
jamboi
jamboi at greens.org
Fri Nov 26 23:16:54 PST 2010
Note that any residents of Santa Clara County can join Meridian West
Credit Union: https://www.meriwest.com/ or
https://meriwestonline.meriwest.com
Green is Collective!
Drew
> Hello:
>
>
> I'm drafting a tri-fold brochure to distributed around the Dec. 7
> international bank rebellion day, and I could use help. A quick
> response would be appreciated so we can complete the text by next
> Tuesday, Nov. 30.
>
>
> 1. Where should people go to if they want to leave an abusive
> bank like Wells Fargo?
>
>
> 2. For people who want to change, what is a sensible process for
> selecting an alternative and then moving?
>
>
> 3. Where do you bank, i.e., have a checking account, etc., and
> what do you think about that organization? My wife and I have banked
> with Wells Fargo for almost 30 years. We decided almost a year ago we
> wanted to leave but haven't because we do not yet have an acceptable
> answer to questions 1 and 2 above. So far, I've tentatively decided to
> limit consideration to 10 credit unions with operations in and near San
> Jose. I'm focusing on credit unions, as they reportedly are
> cooperatives, officially owned by their members, presumably invest the
> money locally and do not engage in the kinds of speculative practiced
> that have manufactured the current "Great Recession", now now
> threatening the economic stability of Ireland and possibly, Portugal,
> Spain, Italy, and perhaps the entire Euro zone. However, I don't know
> how true any of this is.
>
>
> *** There are 8 credit unions in or near San Jose listed with
> "http://local.yahoo.com/CA/San+Jose/Legal+Financial+Services/Credit+Unions";
> listed below. Some of these have customer reviews. However, there are
> so few reviews that I hesitate to give them too much weight.
>
>
> San Jose Credit Union (www.sjcu.org)
>
>
> Valley Credit Union (www.valleycu.org)
>
>
> Star One Credit Union (www.starone.org)
>
>
> Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union (www.sccfcu.org)
>
>
> Meriwest Credit Union (www.meriwest.com)
>
>
> Alliance Federal Credit Union (www.alliancecreditunion.org)
>
>
> Technology Credit Union (www.techcu.com)
>
>
> Commonwealth Central Credit Union (www.wealthcu.org)
>
>
> Thanks. More soon.
> Spencer
>
>
> ###############################
> subj: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Holiday Pot Luck -- we need to announce to San
> Mateo!
>
> On 11/26/2010 2:51 PM, jamboi wrote:
>> Yes, and as a matter of fact, we talked to a San Mateo Green at Junior
>> States who hadn't heard of the event yet, so we need to post the info
>> and
>> get it out to San Mateo and everyone else.
>>
>> Green is Connection!
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>> What time is the pot luck, Thursday, Dec. 2? I've only seen a date and
>>> "Fred's Clubhouse", but not a street address, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Spencer
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/26/2010 7:00 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #######################################
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
>>>>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>>>>> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>>>>>
>
> --
> Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
> President and Chief Operating Officer
> Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
> 751 Emerson Ct.
> San José, CA 95126
> ph: 408-655-4567
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>
More information about the sosfbay-discuss
mailing list