[Street] OB Actions
Eli Cohen
elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu
Wed Jan 11 00:17:02 EST 2012
I like it! Reading this
story<http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-san-francisco-bank-of-america-branch/>gave
me a similar idea, since it showed just how quick they are to close
their doors. Every BoA action Occupy has done, they've shut the doors on
us... and as far as I'm concerned, that's fine! If they want to close the
doors, that's a win for us (it stops us from closing our accounts, but
prevents them from doing business). I know some people will be
uncomfortable discussing details here (security culture, etc.), but I could
see some kind of sustained action at a couple banks, or closing a different
bank every day, or a coordinated action at every big bank in the city, or
something else I'm not even thinking of right now. Who knows!? Let's work
on it.
-Eli
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Kevin Maley <kevinmaley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So a few of us have been having some conversations about a focused and
> sustained campaign on the financial institutions, specifically the
> mega-banks. This would include actions like today's at BNY Mellon and the
> BofA action we did during the Day of Action. It would also include
> informing the public about things they can do (transfer to credit unions)
> and the egregious things the big banks do; such as basically taking over
> public policy, making huge investments in dirty coal and mountain top
> removal, and foreclosing on millions of Americans, often illegally.
>
> We were going to do it as either a subset of street or probably a separate
> working group, since its focused on a specific target, but would involve
> street action and so wanted to collaborate and get people aboard who wanted
> to join. I think we are looking to meet next weekend (the one after MLK)
> but times not sure. So if you want in let me know
>
> Also thinking back to the Day of Action/Unity Rally, it was a really
> unique thing that really brought everyone together. With recent events at
> OB getting really ugly internally, I think it would help us as a movement
> to try something like that again soon, or otherwise plan some big action
> that can help us look outward and keep moving. Maybe a bank action, maybe
> something separate, maybe a lot of separate actions like the DofA. Not sure
> what it would look like but just wanted throw that out there as I think it
> would be good for people at Occupy Boston
>
> keep on truckin'
> Kev
>
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