How You Can Help #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, uninsured, underemployed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.
Here's the good news – you can help, right now today – no matter where you are.
- Spread the word – there's something going on. People have started a movement – they're occupying Wall Street. Hundreds of people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for four days!
- If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park.
- If you're in the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon, go down there. The weather appears to be holding. Take the day off and just go. I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard. This is an open general assembly effort and you will get your say and be a real participant.
- If you are a little ways from NYC, organize foursomes to go to NYC for the day. It will cost you the train/bus/car fare. Take nothing but some food and water and your body.
- Too far to get to NYC? Sign this petition and I will read your name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up Goldman Sachs Now!
- Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same. Don't give the banksters 4 percent of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card – use cash. See: UseCashMovement
- Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and return them the next day. (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.)
- Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.
- Picket a local branch of a bank. When the press asks you what the heck you think you're doing, tell them it's in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
- Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats that will take your order. (Yes, you'll have to use your credit card, big spender!)
- Do you know anybody who knows anybody who knows a writer, a celebrity, etc. who will show their face at the protest? Get to them now.
*Bonus support idea: Spread the word again, and repeat!
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tpartynitwit
Strike while the iron's hot. Raise funds by printing tshirts, hats, bumper stickers etc. Some possible riffs: "Free the Fortune 500, Occupy Wall Street." "Thank our Masters, Occupy Wall Street." "Show those Koch Suckers, Occupy Wall Street." And so on.
tpartynitwit
Strike while the iron's hot. Raise funds by printing tshirts, hats, bumper stickers etc. Some possible riffs: "Free the Fortune 500, Occupy Wall Street." "Thank our Masters, Occupy Wall Street." "Show those Koch Suckers, Occupy Wall Street." And so on.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
M0vements r currently g0ing viral...pi3c3s ass3mbling
Anonymous
Maxing out credit cards and moving your bank accounts to credit unions are great ideas!
Pick three days in a row NOT to buy anything or use money!
Anonymous
Maxing out credit cards and moving your bank accounts to credit unions are great ideas!
Pick three days in a row NOT to buy anything or use money!
Anonymous
I love the idea, but...
is there any way to succeed?
I'm not being cynical, this is a serious question of strategy. Do you have a well-defined goal? How will you know if you've won? What would have to happen to get there? Who has the power to do it? You are winning "the hearts and minds", but now you need to build a pathto victory--the path you want politicians or bankers or Congress to take to get us out of the mess we're in. This is the hard part!
The tea party started as a protest movement too. Maybe that's the next evolution from here--balance out the tea party loonies.
Anonymous
I love the idea, but...
is there any way to succeed?
I'm not being cynical, this is a serious question of strategy. Do you have a well-defined goal? How will you know if you've won? What would have to happen to get there? Who has the power to do it? You are winning "the hearts and minds", but now you need to build a pathto victory--the path you want politicians or bankers or Congress to take to get us out of the mess we're in. This is the hard part!
The tea party started as a protest movement too. Maybe that's the next evolution from here--balance out the tea party loonies.
Anonymous
No, what's going to happen is that you'll be taken over by people who are looking to derail your movement off it's original course...just like what happened to the original tea party. Democrats are going to do to you what Republicans did to the Tea Party. Democrats will use you and throw you away. Most people participating in OWS are too distracted by 'left/right', 'tea party/non tea party' and conservative/liberal to change anything. The Occupy Wall Street movement is going to turn into nothing more than a re-elect Obama movement and that's already started. OWS has also already become pawns of the big banks they're protesting.
Anonymous
No, what's going to happen is that you'll be taken over by people who are looking to derail your movement off it's original course...just like what happened to the original tea party. Democrats are going to do to you what Republicans did to the Tea Party. Democrats will use you and throw you away. Most people participating in OWS are too distracted by 'left/right', 'tea party/non tea party' and conservative/liberal to change anything. The Occupy Wall Street movement is going to turn into nothing more than a re-elect Obama movement and that's already started. OWS has also already become pawns of the big banks they're protesting.
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