Occupy The Board Room... Today-- E-Mail A Bankster

This morning Blue America sent out the following letter to all our members. (If you're not already a member, all you have to do is to contribute anything-- even $1-- to any Blue America candidate. Then you'll get our e-mails directly... like this one urging everyone to take part in a really cool mass action today-- mass and at the same time profoundly personal:

105 US cities occupied. 1499 MeetUps around the world. 50,000 people in the streets of New York and tens of thousands more in cities across the country. Wall Street occupied continuously for one month.
 
The Occupy Wall Street has struck a deep chord with ordinary people around the world and changed our idea of what we, the people, can accomplish by doing one simple thing: bearing witness on the very doorstep of those responsible for the global economic crisis.
 
Today is the biggest action yet-- the #OccupyWallStreet Global Day of Action. Today the 99% are joining together to stand up to Wall Street and the 1% who control it. In a world where the 1% prospers obscenely while the rest of us fall behind, we are demanding accountability for their crimes and telling them exactly how their actions have affected our lives.
 
Click here to OccupyTheBoardRoom and join in the Global Day of Action online.
 
Despite our growing strength, the Wall Street CEO’s and their cronies who crashed our economy still act like they can ignore us. So we're aiming our voices directly at the people who caused this global crisis by filling up their inboxes with stories of how their recklessness affected our lives.  
 
Last year (2009), Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase, received $17.5 million in pay-- not bad, especially considering that his company took $100.7 billion in taxpayer bailouts and that since then JPMorganChase has made a profit of $29.1 billion (2009-'10). Since 2009, JPMorganChase has spent tens of millions of dollars in lobbying Congress and in campaign "contributions." At the same time Chase has foreclosed on thousands of families ($74 billion worth of foreclosed homes). Millions at the top, homeless shelters at the bottom. That’s how the 1% plays the game.
 
Click here to Occupy the Boardroom by sharing your 99%er story with the executives at Chase.
 
But OccupyWallStreet has allowed us to stand up and point out, loudly and powerfully, how the greed of the 1% has trumped the need of the 99%. So while hundreds of thousands of people around the world take action in the streets, we are joining in by virtually Occupying the Board Rooms and filling up the inboxes of the 1% with the stories of the 99%.
 
Click here to deliver your truth to the inbox of the Executives at Chase.
 
This is our moment. Seize it.

If you missed it yesterday, The Gawker ran an invitation to call Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup. I doubt the cell phone number is still functioning.

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit told a Fortune conference on Wednesday that he "would be happy to talk to" Occupy Wall Street protesters "any time they want." That's so cool of him! Here's his cell phone number. He's waiting for your call.

Things you might want to ask Pandit: Can I borrow $3.4 billion at no interest if I put up a bunch of my worthless shit as collateral? I promise to pay it back, because I'm just going to lend it out to a bunch of idiots at like 9% interest and book profits. Or how about you just buy $27 billion of my worthless shit? No deal? How about you just guarantee to eat 90% of the losses on that worthless shit up to $300 billion?

Yesterday the Center for Constitutional Rights joined with hundreds of other organizations and civic leaders to commend OccupyWallStreet for their patriotic activism in the ugly face of a domestic fascist resurgence. Their statement:

The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in full support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Your emerging movement represents the growing discontent with ever-increasing disparities among the rich and the poor, and it is an inspiring step towards a true and organic people’s movement demanding the social and economic rights that have long been denied to the majority of this nation. OWS shows the power of dissent, a power and a right that law enforcement has long sought to criminalize and repress.

The Center for Constitutional Rights condemns the brutal and aggressive policing tactics employed by the NYPD and we call on them to cease targeting the OWS participants. Both Brookfield Properties, the private company that owns the space, and the City of New York are obligated to respect the First Amendment rights of the protesters and allow them to stay, free of provocation and violence from the police.

OWS is providing the opportunity for thousands of people with a shared purpose to come together and create a platform for all of the voices seeking sustained and far-reaching economic justice. We support the many conversations taking place at Liberty Plaza and we value the experience of a community building itself, learning to give voice to all participants, and working out issues of race, gender, safe spaces and more. At the same time, you are calling out economic injustice and promoting human rights, no small feat. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights recognizes that the grassroots, leaderless, horizontally-organized nature of OWS is one of its greatest strengths. We embrace you.

And you can check out the results of the OccupytheBoardroom here. Did you send your e-mail in yet?