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AMY GOODMAN: We convert here to help New York plus the Occupy movement. As objectives around Occupy Wall Street proceed protesting the history profits made by banks bailed out there by simply taxpayer money, a group involving grassroots activists will be striking JPMorgan Chase, Bank with America, Wells Fargo in which this painful most: that wallet. Dubbing this Saturday as "Bank Transfer Day," activists are generally urging folks to move his or her income right out the greatest bankers while in the land directly into people financial institutions along with credit score unions.

Bank Transfer Day draws on a thought popularized by simply filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, economist Rob Johnson, in addition to columnist Arianna Huffington, among others. In 2010, many people designed the quick video Move Your Money , which started to be a new viral sensation.

For much more for the Move Your Money proposal, I m become a member here in New York by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. His operates comprise Why We Fight, which often picked up your august 2005 Grand Jury Prize along at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Trials connected with Henry Kissinger, among others.

Eugene, here you are at Democracy Now!

EUGENE JARECKI: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Talk about how precisely this particular movement began.

EUGENE JARECKI: Well, that azines a wonderful story. Really, ?t had been a notion concerning quite a few friends. I mean, I have some sort of successful chance to get a Christmas dinner having Arianna Huffington. Everybody really should be consequently lucky. It ended up being extremely interesting. And a few men and women sitting around, plus many of us talked about, where will be outrage? All this really is taking place with these kind of "too big that will fail" banks. Banks fail, and in addition they obtain bailed out. We people, when you fail, nobody bails individuals out. Where s the actual outrage? And this "where may be the outrage" question drove us, at the table, ahead up using this type of concept of, well, let's say we all explained to people today in order to merely move his or her money? Why don big t people today just simply move their money? And that will started to be a bit of a new slogan, literally in the course of dinner.

And I gone off, along with I made a short film, and that is some sort of three-minute film this would visit viral plus was that motion picture referred to as Move Your Money . And what them did had been this procured that video clip It verts your Wonderful Life, and it also said to people, should you ve at any time watched It vertisements a Wonderful Life, and you recognize most that factors people ordinarily get choked upward and you weep for George Bailey, when you really like George Bailey you like George Bailey simply because your dog vertisements a compact local community banker, therefore you don t like Mr. Potter, simply because this individual verts a rapacious, predatory large banker. And in case you don big t like Mr. Potter, it is best to get your hard earned dollars from Mr. Potter to get this having George Bailey. Seems sort of noticeable that people must just simply carry out just what that they almost all idealize. So that will vertisements when this started. Now there are some sort of life connected with their own.

AMY GOODMAN: Last month, about two dozens people today were being rotting in jail at your Citibank branch here in Manhattan after they experimented with to maneuver their dollars outside the bank. The protesters were being reportedly closed in to the bank, then detained. Bank officers charged your protesters connected with becoming disruptive. Video taken outside your budget exhibits a good undercover police dragging one person in the loan company after which you can arresting her.

UNDERCOVER POLICE OFFICER: You were inside. You had been inside having most people else.

CUSTOMER: I m a customer. I m a customer.

WITNESS 1: She is often a customer.

CUSTOMER: I m a customer.

UNDERCOVER POLICE OFFICER: You have been inside. Yes, but the truth is were interior with the entire no, no, no.

WITNESS 2: What do you think you're doing?