The Trouble is the Banks: Letters to Wall Street

While Occupy protests were taking place across the nation in Fall of 2011, a lone website, “Occupy the Boardroom,” invited Americans who would never make it to an occupation to write down their beliefs about the financial system and their experiences with loans and banking. 8,000 letters from individuals appeared in six weeks. Signed by those affected by recent history—Democrats and Republicans, property-owners and struggling families, businesspeople and retirees, immigrants and Mayflower descendants, religious leaders and fervent capitalists, and a lot of bank employees past and present—these letters said what Americans have gotten from our banks, what they believe, and how they think things should change.
The letters are polite, funny, outraged, moving, instructive, and inspiring. They are one of the most immediate and unfiltered records ever assembled of what went on in the housing bubble and the financial crisis—written by We the People.
In partnership with Occupy the Boardroom, a team of young editors read through and gathered the most important, compelling, and diverse of these letters. Hear, at last, what American citizens know about their country rather than the opinions of talking heads. Find out what Americans want all of us to do differently.
**Pre-ordering the book now helps us to print the first edition.  It will be shipped to you immediately upon printing in 2 weeks.  Please also consider adding a donation! Your generosity will help us cover the initial run and send copies of the book to each of the bank executives addressed in the letters—and to the desks of our elected officials in Washington.
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All profits will be donated to campaigns for banking reform, campaign finance reform, or to charities directly helping those whose letters appear in this book.
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