Call To Action: Keep us Safe from Bad Banking

I just received an urgent call to action from Demos announcing this week as THE week we must call our Senators to urge them to protect us against the abuses that led to the financial crisis.

How You Can Help

The toll-free number, 866-544-7573 , will ask you to dial-in your zip code. You will automatically be connected to your Senator's office. Once connected, tell your Senator's Office that:

"I want you to support financial reform that holds the big Wall Street Banks accountable and creates a strong and independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA)."

"American families need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to rein in financial products like the deceptive mortgages, credit cards and overdraft fees that are drowning families in debt."

"We need a truly independent consumer agency. Weak reform that subjects the consumer protection agency to the control of another bank regulator is not real reform. Bank regulators got us into this mess by failing to stand up for consumers."

The call-in days are focused on a prioritized list of Senators on the Banking and Agriculture Committees, who will be the first to take up this critical legislation: Sen. Lincoln (AR), Sen. Bennet (CO), Sen. Dodd (CT), Sen. Bayh (IN), Sen. Tester (MT), Sen. Menendez (NJ), Sen. Schumer & Sen. Gillibrand (NY), Sen. Reed (RI), Sen. Johnson (SD), and Sen. Warner (VA). However, the toll-free number will work in all 50 states, and generating calls all around the country is encouraged.

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