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WOW!
CBS last Sunday Morning and today the Los Angeles Times! In today's LA Times piece Islanders move love and money to their own credit union writer Kim Murphy's captured the essence of our community's process and the value of the organizing model we stumbled upon.

Getting national attention for this replicable organizing model is great for our movement. That's why I have been pushing our story, documenting the lessons we learned, and have made tools we built available to others via our CUorganizer.org podcast and resource page.

Credit for the credit union success
But credit for the success of the project itself deserves to be shared amongst many. Besides Rob Harmon and I who were mentioned in the article, Rex Stratton and Amy Herbig and everyone on the initiating committee as well as others in the community played essential roles. We gained generous advice from Credit Union heroes around the country like Gary Bragdon, CEO of Howland Enfield (a CU in Maine) and our friends at Permaculture Credit Union.

And "It takes two to tango," so without the executive staff and board of PSCCU leaning into this dance, there would be no win/win solution. Finally, it is the amazing staff at the PSCCU-Vashon branch under Patte Wagner's leadership that have delivered since before Day One. Their professionalism-hospitality combo has made the kind of growth we've experienced possible, because they inspire the community members who are the foundation of this cooperative financial institution.

Break up BofA in Charlotte, NC
Next week, Backbone Campaign will support the 99% to Break Up the Bank of America Shareholder's Meeting in Charlotte. We hope our imagery helps build the movement to break up the Wall Street banks

Gratitude
I'm incredibly grateful and to be part of this community, and honored to be supported by people across the country to support "radical solutionary" projects, action support and activist trainings. Thank you to those who have recently joined or renewed their membership to the Backbone Campaign.

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In collaboration and gratitude,

Bill Moyer
Backbone Campaign
206-408-8058

PS - Reporting on recent actions and trainings & volunteering for the Communications Team
We haven't gotten to report on all the other trainings, actions and work we have been doing to support the 99% Spring. But below is a fun related video by our Vermont Doo-Occupy collaborators and a photo from our Doo-Occupy projection as protest workshop. More video and photos from actions in the past month soon to follow.

If you feel that you could help us improve our online communications and documentation, PLEASE call the office to learn about the Communications Team we are in the process of forming.