.Another Way to Occupy: Join a Credit Union

As the occupations persist at Frank Ogawa and Justin Herman Plaza, citizen-activists are finding a less vociferous, yet equally effective way to hamstring the fatcats at Wall Street: Join a credit union. As Aaron Glantz reported in The Bay Citizen, institutions like Patelco and Redwood Credit Unions — which both hold more than a dozen branches in Northern California (40 and 19, respectively) — are seeing an upsurge in clientele, as more and more people withdraw their money from major banks and adopt the new model. In contrast to the for-profit conventional banking structure (which diverts money from customers over to shareholders), credit unions pass their profits on to members, in order to give them better rates on loans and financial transactions.

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