Forum Post: Suggestions: What to do besides Protest
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 1:07 p.m. EST by TNT112029
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Offer suggestions for a good non-profit credit union. Make aware to people to pull their money from the banks and into a credit union or community bank.
Clean yourselves up, clean up your areas. You don't have to play by their rules, but at least look like you're in the game.
In fact, it's not a game, STOP PLAYING AROUND! Give them less to criticize (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047664/Occupy-Wall-Street-Children-1-good-time-protests.html)
Create a UNIFORM to show how you are all UNITED. Black jeans and white t shirts or something similar.
Demand resignations and shut downs for government officials who let this happen.
List what you want from the 1% - Do you want there to be a "cap" on capitalism? Do you want them to stop moving the jobs to other countries. Do you want them to raise your wages. Start listing what you want with reasonable evidence to back up these changes.
Call another global protest day that is further away so it can reach more people in time, maybe in December. Oct 15th is far too soon, being as the news it was happening only spread 3 days ago.
Organize flyer people to give out flyers away from wall street with FACTUAL evidence that the 1% are greedy, not just generalizations. Keep it to 1 or 2 sentences per points with a weblink to find out more information.
-tnt
when you take all the money from the 1% and then it is gone what part of the 99% is next on your list
Yeah stop buying and sink us further in a hole
We expect recent efforts to boycott products produced by companies owned or controlled by the Koch brothers, (Charles and David), (pronounced "coke"), to grow in 2011, and will eventually include an effort to have pension funds drop the company's bonds.
Their company, Georgia Pacific, has $10 billion in outstanding bonds.
The organizers of the boycott are suggesting people not purchase things that their company produces, including: Brawny Towels, Dixie Cup Products, Angel Soft Toilet Paper, Mardi Gras Napkins, Quilted Northern Toilet Paper; and Stainmaster Carpets.
also, you might want to think of how you are going to protest when the winter comes. perhaps rent a central place, like a warehouse or something and just have everyone spreading the word during the winter for a national gather in spring 2012.
If you start flyering people with a MAY 2012 date, and tell them to flyer people who tells others to, you'll probably have a lot of people show up for the national date set.
Good luck on these requests
1-Repeal the Patriot Act
2-Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan
3-Guantanamo
4-Simplify the tax code, reduce the rate, get rid of loopholes, no special interest in the tax code!
5-Audit the Federal Reserve and hold the folks responsible of messing our economy
Start with these 5 and we are on the way to a better America!
These are TARGETED, Actionable goals.
Go too broad like "Stop Corporate Greed" and you won't go too far.
You need to stay focused and targeted.
Create a petition on "Change.org" for each of these points and find the emails of the politicians that will be ready to start the change.
We need to hit where it hurts. This means targeting laws and regulations that oppress us, and that give more power to Big Government and Big Corporations.
Stay focused!
For example, targeting the Patriot Act will work with MOST Americans, whether Republican or Democrats or Tea Partiers or Liberals or Libertarians.
Don't go too deep in ideology at this point. The time will come to debate!
1) Definitely; my money isn't in a credit union but it's in a small community bank
2) Agreed; no more "clean the park" shit if we clean it ourselves. Also, see if you can get hold of doru001; he's with a legal firm trying to see if OWS wants their pro bono assistance in getting permits for port-a-potties, sanitation services, etc. and wants to know if OWS can afford to help them with the licensing fees.
3) I honestly don't know how that will work: it might be nice to have but getting this many people to agree on an outfit is gonna be worse than herding lolcats.
4) I'd like to see that, but I don't know whether or not it would actually work.
5) In progress; I'm currently working with a couple of people on a Google doc related to campaign finance and lobbying reform (which most people can seem to agree on), the provisions of which will go online to be voted on in the upcoming days and weeks.
6) Agreed.
7) Definitely agreed.