Occupy Wall Street to march on NY City banks to deliver letters to the 1%

[kpete]

FRI OCT 28, 2011 AT 10:00 AM PDT
Occupy Wall Street to march on New York City banks to deliver letters to the 1%
byChris Bowers

ACTION DESCRIPTION:

(1) Throughout the march a flyering team will be handing out copies of the letters that have links to the website at the bottom. Both marches will be accompanied by (a) a team of bicycling pirates, (b) a choir, (c) a marching band, (d) a set of "postmasters" with stenciled OTBR logos to guide the march and lead group activities. At the top of the march, postmasters will distribute "mailing instruction" 8.5x11 sheets with (a) the march route, (b) description of activities, (c) song lyrics, (d) a space for marchers to write their own letter.

(2) Group 1 and 2 march to first banks, at which we will have a mass paper airplane throwing event. (Postmasters to instruct crowd in paper airplane folding and throwing via people's mic.) After airplanes are thrown, postmasters will help crowd collect all planes and put them in a big mailbag, which will be left in the lobby of the bank.

(3) Groups 1 and 2 march to second bank at which the choir leads everyone in a unison singing of one of the letters. The text for that letter will be printed on the "mailing instructions" handout and on giant (6' x 8') posterboard blow-ups so that everyone can sing along. At the end of the song, we attempt to leave the giant letters in the lobby of the banks.

(4) Groups 1 and 2 converge on Chase HQ at which we sit down and convene a special reading and writing GA. Austin will (tentatively) MC. The main event will be three letter-writers reading their letters to Jamie Dimon over the people's mic. After the letters are read, there will be a brief writing exercise in which the crowd is given 5 minutes to write a letter to the 1% on a detachable portion of their "mailing instructions" sheet. After 5 minutes, we will leave all our letters in or outside of Chase's lobby and leave.

That's pretty complicated for a petition delivery, but it will be memorable.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/28/1030917/-Occupy-Wall-Street-to-march-on-New-York-City-banks-to-deliver-letters-tothe1?detail=hide&via=blog_1
http://occupywallst.org/article/deliver-your-message-1/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. I fear violent confrontations with the cops are inevitable.

[rosesaylavee]

2. Very memorable.

Good for them.

And of course there will be confrontations with the police ... always will be. That's why they are brave people to be standing up for what's right. They are winning hearts and minds by their peaceful and creative protest.