[Street] [InterOccupy Comms] January 30 underwater rally (with OB, CLVU, Mass Uniting, and OWS?)
Stephanie Skier
skier at post.harvard.edu
Wed Jan 18 17:55:17 EST 2012
Thanks, Katie!
I'm glad to see that this action is going forward. As I'd mentioned
previously to you, I spoke with Steve of CLVU about an "underwater"
themed protest to coincide with the OWS Road Trip dates and he said he
would propose this Jan. 30 date to CLVU and MassUniting. I'm pleased
that the CLVU & MassUniting are on board with this Jan. 30 action.
I will convey the information about this action to the OWS Road Trip
bottomliners on the OWS end, and I expect that they will be psyched
to participate. I will e-introduce you to them.
And I will be there on Jan. 30 in my wetsuit.
Best regards,
Stephanie
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Katie Gradowski <katie at occupyboston.org> wrote:
> 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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