Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America
ISBN: 9781844679409
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

OCCUPY

THE

BOARD-ROOM

MARK GREIF

On the night that police attacked the Occupy protesters in Oakland, Tuesday, October 25, “non-lethally” fired on them and gassed them and threw stun grenades, and shot in the head an Iraq veteran named Scott Olsen, it looked like our Cub Scout stormtroopers were out to murder American citizens. They aimed high with shotguns at soft-looking Californians in t-shirts and shorts. The organized violence was carried live on KCBS. In the black ant farm chambers of You Tube, I tunneled from one protester video to the next, following morbid links, lying awake in bed in New York. If they were going to destroy the encampments, as was happening simultaneously in Atlanta, and be brutal, as also in Denver and Chicago, then there needed to be new fields opening to occupy. Powerlessness and rage arise from watching suffering at a distance, as in the Age of Television. In the Age of the Internet, links led me back to Occupy the Boardroom, a site that had launched twelve days earlier, and I started writing letters.

The website lists the names of executives and trustees for the big six banks in America: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. There are no addresses, not even mailing addresses. But the site is organized to allow you to type a long letter to an individual by name. The service routes your letter to the addressee’s email address. It also posts it to a roll of previous letters—more than 6,000, when I first visited—so you learn what other letter-writers know and believe.

To: John G Stumpf, Wells Fargo

Thank you for the years of service, But, I am now going to move my money to a Credit Union until I see an effort by the 1 percent to help the country that gave them their chance.

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Zayas

75234 [Dallas, TX]

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