There's a movement underway encouraging us to move our money out of banks that are "too big to fail" into smaller regional banks with closer ties and more direct connections to the communities they serve.
The driving principle behind this movement--our money is power and we can collectively use that power for the greater good--is the same principle behind similar campaigns encouraging us to buy groceries from farmers markets and community co-ops, to buy books from independent book sellers, and to buy handmade products.
We get what we pay for. And for too long we've been paying for products that destroy the environment, exploit societies, and endanger people's lives, all under the guise of bringing us "low prices". So we lose our jobs to foreign interests, we lose Main Street to corporate interests, we lose our money to banking interests, but there's a dollar store on every corner. Ummmmm.
I am totally behind this campaign (view Move Your Money video), and think we should expand it to emcompass a lot more than banks.
