[Street] OB Actions

Josh Golin golingolin at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 11 11:04:47 EST 2012


Sounds great. I wonder if there is a way to link this to the growing interest in an Occupy the T campaign.  One of the major reasons the T is planning to cut services/raise fares is that any revenue the T takes in goes first to servicing its debts.  Those of us at the Somerville meeting last night also learned that the T made -- and lost -- bets with several of the big banks ("interest default swaps") that have exacerbated the problem.

In other words, our fare and tax dollars earmarked for the  MBTA will continue to go the big bailed out banks while we get an even crappier and more expensive transit system.



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 From: Kevin Maley <kevinmaley at gmail.com>
To: street <Street at lists.occupyboston.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:06 AM
Subject: [Street] OB Actions
 

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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