I've got a suggestion for a way to get back at MBNA, the chief wolf on the bankruptcy bill that is about to pass Congress.
MBNA is one of the leading purveyors of special interest cards, cards where you get a nice picture of your favorite charity (and perhaps they get a donation) and in exchange MBNA gets your first born child.
We may not have a lot of power to affect MBNA. But Working Assets might be able to get their attention. The Alumni and Student associations of the Ohio State, Penn State, Texas A&M, and University of MI (largest alumni association in the country, I believe) might be able to get their attention. The Firefighters and Law Enforcement officers might not want their bankrupt brethren to fall afoul of MBNA's latest legislative goody. Ho about fans of the Boston Red Sox or the New England Patriots?
All of these people are having their lifestyle interests abused by a company that wants honest working people to suffer mightily.
There are also a lot of special groups that are not listed on MBNA's lists (someone on a thread yesterday said the Sierra Club's cards are also carried by MBNA).
If we can get all (or even a sizeable number) of organizations that currently use MBNA's services to dump them or to campaign openly against them, it's going to begin to cost them.
If we can leverage the same special interests MBNA gets to us through, we can hurt them for the shit they just pulled in Congress.
One thing that will take some doing--it takes some searching to get to the decision makers for the credit card services. I've found an email contact for Working Assets for example, but no way to get to a human, yet.
Please consider calling any affiliate you've got an MBNA card through. Ask them to dump MBNA. And please share contact info for them below!