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It’s time.

Tomorrow, November 5th, is Bank Transfer Day.

If you have an account at a BANK, go move it to a CREDIT UNION.

You know, a place that you own and is a mutual association of people?

Yes.  One that you own.  Where the fees assessed go to provide services to…. you, not to feather the nests of bank executives and stockholders.

MOVE YOUR MONEY FOLKS!

The difference between sex and rape is consent.  You’re not being raped by bank fees, you’re being sexed, as you’re consenting — and have choices.

Make that choice tomorrow.

• Find a Credit Union in the United States
• Find a Credit Union in Canada
• Find a Credit Union in the United Kingdom

A MESSAGE TO YOUNG PROTESTORS:

Don’t be a sheep or a puppet… study what is really going on.  It is all based on Economic Philosophy gone bad.  WE are not each others enemies… the central banks, like The FED, and the government that serves THEM are to blame… not liberals or conservatives.

Oh no, not the truth again!

Everything happened just the way Occupy Nashville protesters said it would.

The group of young Republicans from Vanderbilt University marched up to the group of Occupy Nashville protesters sitting on the steps to Legislative Plaza on Thursday evening.

The small group of about 20 students was armed with signs and chanting.

The group was quickly drowned out by a roar of cheers and applause from the nearly 150 Occupy Nashville protesters. Some called out, “We love you” to the students as the two groups faced each other: the students standing at the foot of the stairs and the Occupy Nashville group sitting at the entrance to the plaza.

Chanting from the students, “We are the debt generation!” was quickly amplified as Occupy Nashville protesters started joining in. It wasn’t long after that the two groups combined. Many shook hands and broke into small discussion groups, intent upon hearing each other’s views.

“We were so pleased that they accepted our welcome,” said William Howell, 64, one of the Occupy Nashville protesters who was arrested during last week’s protests. “I hope we continue to hear voices from that point of view. We have found that during our talks, we have a lot of the same interests.”

But Copus also thought it was great that the groups could come together.

“People should be able to express their views, even if they don’t agree with each other,” he said.

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Oh nooooos!  Not the First Amendment!  OH NO MR. BILL!

But if these guys are all a bunch of closed-minded Marxists and Communists, then how come this group of Republicans from the local college went out there and found….. applause?

And how is it that I, also a conservative when it comes to economics who believes in Capitalism, used the People’s Mic in Pensacola and found the response for my message was….. applause?

C’mon folks.  Let’s face it: The so-called Republicans that trumpet The Constitution are simply wrong when it comes to this group and their intentions, and the vast majority of the verbal bomb-throwers from The Right have not spent one minute at one of these gatherings personally and as such have absolutely no basis for their claimed opinions.

Get off your butt and go mingle with these folks.  They’re people, just like you, and if you spend a few minutes talking with them you might have the same experience I did: There is a wide variance of opinion represented but the vast majority of the people there have correctly identified the “who” in what’s wrong — many of them are searching for the “how”, and if you take the time to speak with them and have an exchange of ideas, you are likely to find that both of you are pleasantly surprised with the results.

A funny thing happened when staffers from the famous conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, visited Occupy Wall Street to see it with their own eyes.

The AEI staff approached their tour of Zuccotti Park with certain negative preconceptions, so they were very surprised to find the OWS protestors as articulate and well-informed as they are passionate.

Everywhere the AEI staffers looked, they saw evidence of free-market fundamentalism. They were impressed by the OWS camp’s order.

They were impressed by its water filtration system. They were impressed by the can-do spirit and abundance of entrepreneurship.

The AEI’s conclusion? The OWS protestors are actually “conservatives, they just don’t know it.”

I’d like to suggest a different conclusion: Perhaps the AEI should re-examine its own preconceptions of liberal.

For the past 50 years, a fierce war of indoctrination has been waged in this country, with corporate media forces in print, TV and radio focused on a single aim: to divide the American people and to keep them divided.

Because, divided we fall.

Divided, we are helpless to resist the one percent’s relentless hijacking of our government and our economy.

People like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are richly paid because of their talent for dividing the American people, for their skill at pushing the buttons that makes certain segments of the 99 percent hate other segments of the 99 percent.

Fox “News” is a propaganda machine devoted to dividing the people, and keeping them divided.

Occupy Wall Street is striking a chord because it is uniting people across the political spectrum. The prospect of such unity is the worst nightmare for corporate USA and its subsidiary, the U.S. Congress.

OWS has reinvigorated the “Move Your Money” movement, with people across the USA closing their big bank accounts and moving their deposits to local banks and credit unions. There is a nationwide Occupy Bailed Out Banks day on Saturday.

Since I’ve enjoyed free checking, free checks and fee-less, friendly services at small banks for 20 years, I was shocked when I read an article today about the big bank push for customer fee hikes in 2012.

I was stunned to learn about the monthly fees that big bank customers apparently pay on a regular basis, just for the privilege of banking.

So let me get this straight, customers deposit their hard-earned cash into big banks, which in turn use that money for the purpose of creating profit for Wall Street CEOs and the big bank charges ever-increasing fees to those customers for this privilege? And people pay these fees? Are people crazy?

If you have savings or checking accounts with one of the big six, you are paying way too much. Consider moving your money to a locally-owned bank or to a credit union. You will enjoy better service at a lower cost. And keeping your money local means you are investing in your own local economy. It’s a win-win!

To learn more about move-your-money and Occupy events near you, Google OccupyTogether.org and search your town’s name.

Deb Baumann – Record-Bee