Many of the big banks wanted to thank us for bailing them out by adding a monthly fee for using our debit cards.  We answered them by moving our money to credit unions and smaller banks.  We won, the banks dropped their fees and had to spend a ton of money for damage control advertising.  We voted with our dollars and it worked!

In the old days, people would call what we did a boycott.  Boycotts never used to work because they had limited participation.  In the spirit of the Occupy movement, let's call this very effective financial/political weapon what it really is and use it for other things, it's a - - BUY STRIKE!!  Are greedy speculators driving up the prices on a particular food item?  We can institute a buy strike against any supermarket that raises the price of that item, they will get the message!  We can BUY STRIKE any company that manufactures overseas if they have a competitor that manufactures here, they will get the message!

You can find out how to control the corporations that control our electeds by visiting my Listen Here! page.