[Street] January 30 underwater rally (with OB, CLVU, Mass Uniting, and OWS?)
Katie Gradowski
katie at occupyboston.org
Wed Jan 18 15:23:26 EST 2012
Hey all!
I wanted to give you a heads up on this action! To get on the OB radar --
and potentially also connect up with OWS road trip?
Yesterday morning CLVU (plus a handful of folks from Occupy Boston) staged
an underwater rally in front of Bank of America protesting BOA's failure to
reduce principal on mortgages after the financial crisis (you might have
seen the email: "flippers! goggles!" etc). It was fun! It was also
sort of planned on the fly, so was pretty small. People were excited
about doing it again, but bigger!
*The proposal is to do a large-scale rally and march on January 30
with Occupy Boston, City Life / Vida Urbana, Mass Uniting, and smaller
Occupies* across downtown Boston. The general idea is to march on BOA,
Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, and a handful of other lenders in the downtown
area in full regalia -- swimsuits, inner tubes, fish puppets, bubble
machines -- during the afternoon lunch hour to raise awareness about the
need for principal reduction on underwater mortgages.
CLVU and MassUniting are in, as of yesterday. I'm going to pitch it
during this Sunday's action assembly -- in the meantime, I'd love to touch
base with the folks coming down from OWS, as well as anyone on these lists
who's interested in being in on the planning (if you are, please respond
to this email!) I think there will be a lot of enthusiasm within OB for
this action -- and this time around, we can be in on the planning!
Questions!
1) Can someone forward me contacts from OWS?
2) What working groups, beyond those cc'ed here, should be in on this?
If the answer to 2) is "mine!" please email me!
Please don't forward widely yet -- this action is about a day into the
planning, so it's VERY preliminary. Please DO share your thoughts and
contacts!
love and solidarity,
Katie
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