Tell Big Banks: We Need to Talk.

On October 25th, America's bailed out banks will be meeting at the ABA convention in Chicago. These are the very institutions that drove America to financial meltdown, and are now using our tax dollars to lobby against reform.

This is being billed as the most important meeting of the year for the financial industry. This is when banks will decide what direction they take for the next 12 months.

We're the ones funding these banks with our tax dollars, we should have a say in how they're spending our money. Tell the big banks of the ABA to meet with us, the taxpayers, while they're in Chicago. →

For America's banks, the past year has been in exercise in corporate greed gone wild. They've done nothing to clean up the financial mess they created, but continue to pay out billions in bonuses for their top brass. They pile fee after fee on their customers, but offer no help when homeowners get caught up in the housing collapse.

Enough is enough. Thousands of Americans, from across the country, are coming to Chicago on October 25-27th to demand changes from our banks. This will be the largest demonstration against bank greed since the financial meltdown began. Will you tell the banks to listen to our demands?

The reforms we're asking for are simple:

• Stopping foreclosures to save Americans’ homes and state and local budgets;
• Providing the same affordable loans to state and local governments that the banks receive from the federal government;
• Restoring small business lending to save jobs and tax revenue;
• Lowering interest rates on consumer credit cards and stopping charging abusive overdraft fees that take billions out of consumers’ pockets; and
• Allowing employees to negotiate compensation practices so they are no longer directly tied to quotas and unreasonable sales goals, targeting consumers with unnecessary or harmful products, and amassing consumer debt.