CREATING ACTIONS (filled with energy)
Occupy Town Hall, January 9, 2011

• Use humor, vitality, bright colors, songs, dance
• Civil Disobedience gets more media attention than just picketing or protest
• Colorful vital actions get more media attention.
• Flash Mob
• Street Theatre
• Role Play
• Freeze
• Music
• Holding up signs or banners at surprising places (at a dance, for example)
• Local actions
• At malls, farmer’s markets,central points, unexpected and unusual places
• Some slogans we like:
• Bail out students. Forgive student loans
• Tents are speech
• Bank on Main Street, not on Wall Street
• We won’t give our lives to corporate control
• US Millionaires—Don’t be slackers, pay your taxes
• Bumper stickers on 3 sides of garbage cans
• COMMUNICATION IS VITAL:
• how to network
• email lists
• resource lists to take home
• facebook, twitter, phone tree
• Teach-in at a mall (not at the Peace Center) in conjunction with action
• Recognize character qualities which have been lost: compassion, integrity
• Factual handouts to be used at banks, events, actions or by themselves