Can we help distribute this BofA Divestment Pledge?

[EFerrari]

There's a group here that might have legs:

As Occupy Wall Street protests continue, a San Jose grassroots group takes different route

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PACT is a multiethnic, interfaith organization that seeks to empower people to create a more just community; it represents 25 congregations and 50,000 people in Santa Clara County. The nonprofit announced Wednesday that it is pulling over $1 million from its accounts with Wells Fargo and transferring the money to a local San Jose bank.

"We stand in solidarity with thousands of families in San Jose and millions in our nation who have been unfairly forced out of their homes," PACT Co-Chairman David Gonzales told a few dozen followers sitting in the church's pews. "We say to Wells Fargo: No more foreclosures. You will not have our money anymore."

Peggy Bryan, an associate pastor at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Saratoga, echoed that sentiment from the church's altar, saying she was ending her 15-year-long relationship with Wells Fargo and taking her $150,000 in savings to a local credit union.

"We're saying, 'Not one more home stolen from our community by any bank,' " said Bryan, 60, who added that she was acting as a private citizen and not representing her church.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_19100787

LINK TO THEIR PLEDGE w contact info:

http://www.pactsj.org/admin/documents/files/100406-divestment-pledge-v31-04-16-2010.pdf

[EFerrari]

1. Kick

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Kick and Recommend!

[mod mom]

3. Thanks, Beth...will do rec'd

[EFerrari]

4. Thank you. They need followers, too, on Twitter: @PACTSJ.

I'm so proud of these people for fighting back!

[mod mom]

5. my kids tease me ...

but I don't have a twitter account. My son tells me my phone was a fail in 2005. :blush:

After working on the election investigation I never liked how authorities could track your location w your phone. I only carry one for emergencies.

[EFerrari]

7. I agree with you.

lol

I don't like how Facebook acts but Twitter is a great tool, imo, and their searches are still mostly unfiltered so when you search something, your whole internet history doesn't determine your results as it can with The Google. :)

[DirkGently]

6. If banks don't want to work with people, why should people want to work with banks?

[EFerrari]

8. East San Jose has a lot of low income working people.

That these guys were able to move a million is amazing. I bet they can do more now, too.

[DirkGently]

9. "Wealth creators" forget the main ingredient is working people's money.

Atlas Shrugged got it exactly backwards. It's the "geniuses" who are screwed without everyone else, not the other way 'round.

[EFerrari]

10. Thanks to @MrDaveyD for retweeting @PACTSJ story

to 18K+ followers.

:woohoo: