Variety of ideas for Occupy Wall Street

Here's a mix bag of ideas I think are worthy of discussion. These are a combination of tactics to fight back and demands that should be considered. These are ideas only, hopefully part of the discussion can be on how to implement them.

-Demand the complete legalization of hemp. This miracle plant can be used for fuel, textiles, paper, food, paper, medicine, plastics, construction and many more things. Look at how many corporations and industries benefit from the outlaw of this plant. Legalizing the growing of one single plant would result in widespread beneficial social, economic, environmental changes. Being unable to grow hemp is a sign that big business has hijacked the legislative and judicial system. It is impossible to argue against the sweeping benefits this plant offers, let the people have access to it.

This idea focuses on exposing how nefarious and immoral big business and the government are to the layman. A simplified demand that is so beneficial to the people that by not having it fulfilled the hypocrisy and evilness of those in charge becomes apparent.

-Demand complete funding for 'industry truth information'. Each industry and company spends a fortune on marketing, PR and legal teams to keep their closet for a skeletons hidden. The truth is often so simple that mere exposure can radically redefine established viewpoints. The majority do not know the extent of how heinous and vile some corporate crimes and secrets are. Give us funding for truth dissemination... Or don't, it's just another example of how you strive for profit without morality.

The people are hard at work sharing the truth already and will likely continue to do so for free. Corporate truth contributions can go towards insuring that each occupy location has the ability to adequately present these truths to anyone interested.

-Demand "no victim, no crime" for all OWS protestors who have and will be arrested. Look at all the bogus crimes occupiers have been arrested for. You'd be hard pressed to find any true crime among these peaceful protestors. If the state cannot show there is a victim, the charges are dropped. This is strictly for the occupiers benefit. The police have made countless suspicious, whimsical arrests with the hope of curtailing protestors involvement. Protestors fear that their rights will be violated by the police and courts, this is a demand that helps alleviate those fears.


--Bank Holdups
Closing your accounts with your banks and moving funds to credit unions is a great way to vote with your dollars. If you want to grind down bank efficiency and hurt them further occupy their time. Go into a bank with plenty of other protestors but don't protest. The idea here is to clog their system with extra work. When dealing with employees take as long of a time as you want, ask as many questions as possible. Fill out and cash plenty of checks for miniscule amounts. Ask the teller for ridiculous requests, do the same with banking associates.


Hopefully this generates some discussion!

“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice”

Please don't forget that those bank tellers are getting paid utter crap.

They're working a job, and happy to have one. I won't condone making the bank teller's lives any harder when it's the upper management and owners that should feel something.

It's like you're calling out to hassle slaves for being slaves, giving them a hard time when it's the slave owner you should be pestering.

Do a public data search on extremely wealthy crony banker names, and write real paper letters or cheap postcards by the thousands to their home addresses, and offices, calling them out for who and what they are, peacefully, and politely so without any threats.
The deluge of hard copy protest mail will make it harder for them to sort through regular business mail.
It will effect them directly.

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The slaves don't really care what work they have to do. The idea is to make the banks less efficient by costing them time.

I like the mail idea but that requires stamps, and lots of them. If every person sends just a few pieces of mail it'd work, but you'd need a commitment of thousands of people to be able to blanket anything more than just a few owners. These are ideas that should be considered though, I like how you're thinking.

Here's an idea...GO HOME! That's right, go home!

Use your wallet and stop giving them your money. Until you do, you are no better than they are so stop acting like you are looking for a handout and do something about it!!!