Break up the Banks! Stop Blank Check Bailouts

Join us this Saturday, April 11 for a national day of protest to break up the power of the banks that caused the current financial crisis and to push for systematic reform of the financial sector.  In Portland, we will combine the call to -- nationalize, reorganize and decentralize -- with the Portland based Fire Your Bank campaign.  This should be a great event that helps all of us get the message out to Congress and the President that we want solutions to the financial crisis that benefit all of us, not the Wall Street elites.

Bring your signs, chants, cell phones, and energy.  And help get the word out and forward this email to your lists.

Some sign ideas include:

Banksters are gaming the system
Break Up the Banks
If it's too big to fail, it's too big to exist
Bailout the people
Trustbusters 2.0
Fire Your Bank
Stop Blank Check Bailouts

Three Key Reforms

NATIONALIZE: Insolvent banks that are too big to fail must incur a FDIC intervention -- no more taxpayer handouts.

REORGANIZE: Current CEOs and board members must be removed and bonuses wiped out. The financial elite must share in the cost of what they have caused.