Forum Post: Massive Withdrawal
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 8:07 p.m. EST by asanan
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I propose that the next phase for Occupy Wall Street is a token but powerful show of force. The aim would be to show the banks the potential power of the 99%.
The action would be called: Massive Withdrawal (get the addiction to capitalist society withdrawal reference?). The vision: on Halloween all 99%ers withdraw $100 from the bank at noon EST. The goal: A scary Halloween for corporate America: Demonstrating to the banks the potential power of the people.
Are you with me?
Great idea.You're on. And add to it the daily avalanche emails to every retailer you can think of with the demand that if they don't carry USA made products of every type, you are going to boycott their store completely. Many of them are the manufacturer of many of their own products and have serious gambles of money invested into inventory. The thought of that inventory freezing terrifies them. The most important vote that you have for jobs is at the cash register so vote for USA only. And for those items that you absolutely have to have and cannot find made in the USA, buy refurbished or resale so that imported inventory isn't automatically reordered because of your purchase. Put off buying anything that you don't absolutely need to if it is only available in imports. Or upgrade what you have, buy resale refurbish,etc
not a real solution. gimmicky, sorry. besides some may not have money or bank account. Still have to purchase goods from conglomerate subsidiaries. There is no real way to exclude the "power elite" from our daily lives unless we stop everything, bad outcome. The answer is judicial or legislative. I call for a redress of grievances created by the unregulated and dishonest oversight by our government on corporate and financial powers.
The power is in your consumer hands, not with anyone else. Their stock prices are determined minute by minute at the cash register so vote smart and pass it on. See above.
Until OWS's numbers are in the hundreds of thousands, there is actually a fair bit to be lost by this -- if OWS declares a flight and only pulls a few hundred thousand out of the market, then their current small-ish size gets publicized. Unless the withdrawal is HUGE, it's pure bad PR. I support OWS, but we must recognize that it's still numerically weak.
dumb until you have the actual participation of more than one tenth of a percent of the population. still prolly dumb after then.
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