Related - Bank Transfer Day
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=281139538577206 Open an account with a Credit Union
Transfer your funds to the new account (online or in person) by 11/05
Follow your bank's procedures to close your account
To find a credit union near you:
http://www.findacreditunion.com/...
Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will ALWAYS remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking institutions on or by this date, we will send a clear message and give the 1% a taste of the fear that we experience every day when we aren't able to pay for our rent, food, medication, utilities, student loans, etc.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Invite your friends
Post to your timeline
Post to your local occupation movement's FB page
Print flyers
LOGO:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2328261039596&set=o.281139538577206FLYERS:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2326389472808&set=o.281139538577206http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2326517996021&set=o.281139538577206WHY ARE WE BOYCOTTING?
The Durbin Amendment is an add-on to the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law No. 111-203), signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. The Act allows the Federal Reserve to regulate debit card interchange fees of banks with over $10 billion in assets. Over the summer, the Fed released the final rule on the matter by limiting debit card interchange fees to a maximum of 21’ per transaction. In response, these "major banks" have decided that beginning early 2012 any consumer with less than $20,000 in combined accounts will be charged a monthly $3-5 fee if they use their debit card at any point during the month. This is a blatant attack on the 99% that cannot & will not be tolerated. In a stand of solidarity, on November 5th we will transfer our money & close our accounts with these major banking institutions to take our business to credit unions (or local banks if a credit union isn't available). Since #OccupyWallStreet began, these banks are donating our money (and money they've made with our money) to law enforcement agencies to heap abuse on our brothers & sisters. NO LONGER.
FACTS/FIGURES:
With the Durbin Amendment in affect, banks will still make 19’ profit per processed transaction [*1]
The average consumer uses his/her debit card 24 times per month [*2]
Without the additional fee, Bank of America stands to turn a $3,228,480,000 annual profit from its 59 million customers' debit card transactions [*3]
Without the additional fee, Wells Fargo stands to turn a $2,626,560,000 annual profit from its 48 million customers' debit card transactions [*4]
Without the additional fee, JP Morgan (Chase) stands to turn a $4,924,800,000 annual profit from its 90 million customers' debit card transactions [*5]
Sources:
[1]
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/credit-union-study-swipe-costs-adds-confusion-to-debit-fee-battle[2]
http://money.bundle.com/article/cash-check-plastic-how-we-pay[3]
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MzQ1NzV8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM%3D&t=1[4]
https://www.wellsfargo.com/downloads/pdf/invest_relations/wf2010annnualreport.pdf[5]
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ONE/1425507660x0x458380/ab2612d5-3629-46c6-ad94-5fd3ac68d23b/2010_JPMC_AnnualReport_.pdf
