Forum Post: Call for Next Global Protest Action> Global Withdraw Protest
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 16, 2011, 2:18 a.m. EST by BankRunOccupy
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What: An organized global virtual protest How: Every supporter withdraws the maximum they can from banks Where: Globally organized and coordinated virtually. When: SMS and email alerts notify start to prevent Central Bank prevention.
Does anyone else out there see this as a terrible idea? Great Depression anyone?
The only purpose behind this is to gain personal satisfaction from watching others, including the banks, in pain and suffering.
To cause others pain and suffering.
Which is what all of us know that OWS has been about from the very beginning.
I'm sorry, but it seems the banks have already done a pretty good job of causing pain and suffering on a global scale that would have made Napoleon jealous.
You intend to cause pain and suffering. The banks? Never, ever intended to fail.
Do you work for a bank or something or as a DC lobbyist? The banking industry lobbied Congress for years to repeal laws enacted after the Great Depression that had been put in place to prevent exactly what we are going through right now. So, yes the banks have caused pain and suffering.
I've accused you of planning to cause others pain and suffering twice now and you don't deny it.
Can't speak for BankRunOccupy, but I plan on closing my current bank account and going with a local bank as well, not because wish to "cause pain and suffering," a ridiculous accusation (which I imagine is why it went ignored), but simply because I no longer wish to do business with an organization who's actions I disapprove of. Basic free market solution.
Thanks for summing up my attitude to this...a ridiculous accusation indeed. Like withdrawing the 300 bucks I have sitting at CitiBank is gonna collapse the banking system? The point of protest is symbolic, not to bring down society. Collective expression in mass. What more needs to be explained? Has to be a bank employee or works for faux news.
Your $300 in Citibank is being used by them to increase their profits 10x-20x. Pulling out your cash can end up costing them about $3000 - $6000.
Probably not a good idea to induce a coordinated global run on the banks. What possible good would come of that?
I thought you were complaining about being broke and in debt? For a bunch of guys who complain about not having any money, you sure talk a big game as far as pulling money out of the banks. lol
You obviously don't get the meaning of the word protest. A protest is a show of collective will and coordination. The actual amount is meaningless. I feel compassion for your blind adherence to the status quo and lack of willingness to change things for the 99%. Do you work for a major bank or for a Wall Street trading firm?
No, I'm just realisitc and don't have delusions of grandure.
A protest is only effective if somebody's paying attention, understands the nature of your protest, and it gives you some leverage.
You take your $300 out and they say OK, here you go. What happens then? lol
then you get arrested (this happened yesterday): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdeuuzXS_sY&feature=player_embedded