Three Ways To Make Wall St. Cry

They stole our houses, our jobs, our health care, our earnings and our government. If the arc of the moral universe is ever going to bend towards justice, it's going to have to happen the same way it got bent towards injustice: deliberately. Let's get this party started.

1. I was watching Laura Flanders on GRITtv the other night, where she interviewed Robert Johnson about a surefire way to make the banks that broke the world pay, by taking your money out of them.

Johnson cited JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs as responsible for 97% of derivatives markets and the six institutions working hardest to stop Congress from regulating their industry so they can't wreck everything again. And they're probably ripping you off in fees, anyway.

For your enjoyment, this short clip from MoveYourMoney.info, (where you can go to find a sound, federally insured bank in your area not owned by the big six,) explains the situation through a story we all know and love, "It's A Wonderful Life":

2. Join a worker-cooperative business or become a customer at one. According to the article, United Steelworkers is already partnering with a Spanish co-op umbrella group, Mondragon, to start a co-op partnership in the US.

This is a longer term project, but if you've been harboring entrepreneurial dreams, maybe you just need to fire your boss.

3. Technically, this item is 10 things, bringing the list total to 12, but I learned how to count from Monty Python sketches about the Spanish Inquisition. Try not to hold it against me. So anyhow, here's 10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You, by Scott Thill.

I'm not sure I agree with all 10 items, but there's some good, outside the box thinking there.

And perhaps I should reconsider my cable TV addiction. On the one hand, I was doing just fine before getting hooked on True Blood, Dexter, Stargate Universe, and all the other trashy cable series I now watch. On the other, I do use my cable to surf a lot of international and boutique news shows (also CSPAN3, aka, the serious congressional committee channel, or simply, the most boring channel since test patterns were invented) that I don't know if I could find online. Hmm.

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