May 6, 2012 at 4:51pm 45 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Islanders move love and money to their own credit union: Fed up with corporate indifference, a green haven in Puget Sound, Wash., finds a novel way to snub big banks. It would be hard to imagine a place further removed from the brash intensity of Occupy Wall Street. This secluded island of fir forests and rolling lavender fields — home to 23 organic farms, a tofu factory and a monastery that markets its own gourmet coffee — has always been a counterculture retreat for those who bike to the sound of different drummers. Yet a continent away — a whole world away, really — from New York, this small island of 11,000 residents has become one of the darlings of the Move your Money campaign, an Occupy effort to hit corporate banking where it hurts: the ledgers. Photo: Community activist Bill Moyer helped lure a branch of the Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union to Vashon Island, Wash., and now sits on the board. It has been a hit with islanders fed up with impersonal corporate banks. Credit: Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times

Islanders move love and money to their own credit union: Fed up with corporate indifference, a green haven in Puget Sound, Wash., finds a novel way to snub big banks.

It would be hard to imagine a place further removed from the brash intensity of Occupy Wall Street. This secluded island of fir forests and rolling lavender fields — home to 23 organic farms, a tofu factory and a monastery that markets its own gourmet coffee — has always been a counterculture retreat for those who bike to the sound of different drummers.

Yet a continent away — a whole world away, really — from New York, this small island of 11,000 residents has become one of the darlings of the Move your Money campaign, an Occupy effort to hit corporate banking where it hurts: the ledgers.

Photo: Community activist Bill Moyer helped lure a branch of the Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union to Vashon Island, Wash., and now sits on the board. It has been a hit with islanders fed up with impersonal corporate banks. Credit: Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times

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