A lot has happened around de international financial crisis since the publication of CRISIS started. The 17-S magazine title “Do you think banks steal your money?” was answered with help of more than 2 trillion Euro the USA and the countries of the EU have guaranteed to the private bank, with citizens' money.

It was not only the bankers, but it was demonstrated that politicians and bankers work together in order to spoliate the wealth of people. Bankers finance politicians, politicians finance bankers. In the whole world, the policies of “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor” are applied in a more evident way. The important banks threatened by the bankruptcy are rescued with public money while the majority of the main investors and executives of the finance sector have extended their personal patrimony with thousand times superior income than workers.

That is how everything is done in order to save the richest people investments and, meanwhile, millions of people around the world are losing their houses or are enslaved by their jobs due to very hard debts and there are also 2.900 million people who do not have any debts because they live in bad conditions with less than 2 dollars a day. Therefore, the states have demonstrated what side they are, leaving the population to lose everything so the Bank wins an enriches itself.

Last November the campaign begun.
This situation could not be accepted any more so, before this position we had to stand, say STOP and take action. The publication of 17 September already contained concrete foreseeable proposals after the occurred in the international sphere from that moment on. The first action was the Striking campaign for the banks' users which officially began 12 November 2008, opening pre inscriptions and spreading them through internet.

During the first days of the campaign a large number of people registered and they still visiting our web side. There were a lot of different profiles: activists, solidarity people, people in deep debt who have been in black lists for a long time, etc.

Four months after the beginning of the campaign, we are arriving at 400 pre enrolled people. Most of them are in Catalonia but there are also people in the País Valencià, Madrid, Andalusia, Euskalherria, Galiza and Illes Balears. And in some places there have already been previous encounters and contacts to this text.

At the beginning we did not picked a concrete day to remove the money from the bank because we did not want the proposal to be seen as an spontaneous action without a clear future. We wanted to prepare it well and we wanted the project to be trusted and seen as a serious action, little by little so we proposed an action consisting as following: when we are 1000 people in a certain territory, the strike will begin. We know a lot of people are afraid of what may happen if the banks fall into bankruptcy. Is a fear the dominant system has put very well inside our bodies and minds. That is why we did not assign a hastily day to remove all the money from the banks.

From the beginning we knew we have a lot of work to do and to demonstrate, with very clear proposals and pilot experiences, we can better live without banks and we can not live in a hypothetical future system, but here and now, organizing ourselves in the neighbourhood, in the villages or in our communities.

That is why in the text of the campaign methodology we wrote as following:

“Given the participants, especially the ones who stop paying debts and have seizable houses, are assuming a personal risk, the way to overcome this risk as a striker collective is the solidarity and mutual support. Everyone who wants to participate is asked to be able to be solidary. So, between all the participants we will create an interpersonal support web in order to ensure that no one is left without shelter and food on the table. Furthermore, the strike wants to stimulate the starting up of the society alternatives.
To demonstrate we can live well, actually better, without banks will be one of the main objectives of the campaign. Thus, taking out the money of the banks will be a step to reinforce the alternatives, with the possibility that investing money in them and stop paying debts, will be a way of taking part in communitarian solutions in order to cover the basic needs.”
The banks' strike has been specified with proposals.
The way of participating in the strike and the generic network of mutual support through the months has been more specific in several proposals that have their space in these pages.
Who has savings and current accounts in conventional bank can close them and use ethical or cooperative options
(information in page 12).
Who has debts, can stop paying them (information in page 8). And if it is the mortgage which can be paid, pay attention to page 13.
Who does not have debts but is convinced to collaborate, can ask for loans to not give it back and dedicate this money to promote the life alternatives, beginning with herself. (information in page 9).
People who or are in the black list, somehow or are part of strike and they are possible to be part to the group. Who decides to maintain his current account in a conventional bank, for the reasons that are, it can put only the minimum money for the operations that need and to collaborate demanding in the Bank of Spain all the abuses that are committed with their accounts.
People who are already in the black list, somehow, they are, already, part of the strike and they can be part of the collective.
Who decides to maintain their bank account in a conventional bank, for whatever reason, can put only the minimum money for the operations needed and collaborate protesting against the Spanish bank all the abuses done to their accounts.

But the strike is mostly an action to built alternatives, we can live without banks and that is why we are NOT satisfied in just taking out all the money of the banks and spread the fear so everyone does it. We are aware a lot of people will not join in to the alternative until is a solid one and it is viable to live without banks.

That is why the strike is tied to a whole series of proposals that we explain in the following pages and we are sure they will make it possible:

The cooperatives of ethic banks (page 12)
The cooperatives of in cession of use houses (page 13)
The integral cooperatives (page 14)

Moreover, we have decided to summon it as part of the massive action explained in pages 10 and 11, so it will be one of the ways of participating in a global proposal of life after the capitalism.
Which power can have a black list if we are all in it? Which power will have their obstruction if they affect millions of people? With what they will speculate if we take out all the money from the banks?
If all the concious people and black listed people join together and give support to one another, they will not be able to stop us. Take all the money out of the bank, do not let them speculate with our savings! Do not pay your mortgage and stay living in your house, do not pay your personal credits. Join the strike of banks!

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Let's make pressure groups bank to bank.
From now on, we will also organize the debtors by banking and financing organizations in order to increase the capacity to pressure or coordinated action.

The same way we are organized by territories, which is very important for building alternatives and for the nearest mutual support, those people who also have debts which we have difficulties or we can not pay, we can organize ourselves in banking organizations, specially, the biggest ones and with international character. This will give more force of pressure to the organized people.

The grave problems of liquidity which the organizations have can result to the benefit of the pressure capacity of us people who can organize ourselves.

To participate, consult: http://www.17-s.info/en/grupsperbancs