Sunday, October 30, 2011

If you can't occupy Wall Street, keep Wall Street occupied



YouTuber ransackedroom has come up with an ingenious way to support remotely the occupy wall street protests and get banks attention by using something free and abundant and most probably already available to you.

By using the return envelope that comes within unsolicited credit card offers, people can start a dialogue with the banks. As noted, ransackedroom points out the financial cost the banks would incur by tons of return letter sent back to them is a nice side-effect, but the real point is to force banks to react to the public's voice and demands.

"This isn’t really about running up the postage bill on the big banks, although that’s a nice side effect. The real effect of this is to force banks to react to us.

If they start getting hundreds and thousands of weird responses to their credit card applications, well they’re going to have to have meetings. They going to have to develop new procedures and every hour banks spend reacting to us is an hour banks don’t spend lobbying Congress on how to screw us. It’s an hour banks don’t spend foreclosing on our houses.

So I think that that’s progress."

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