Fund Raiser: Occupy The Rose Parade Needs Money for Banners
You guys gave over $40,000 for pizzas to feed Occupiers. We sent our Occu-pies to over 50 cities. It was very successful and it was all you! Our readers gave in amounts as small as $3 and it added up to a lot!
What's the difference between Occupy and the tea party? Have you ever heard of a fund raiser for the tea party? No. Because they're funded.
Occupy the Rose parade has coordinated with Pasadena police. They have a First Amendment right to march in the parade. They are float number 44 (as in Obama the 44th president). The Rose Parade is viewed by 50 million Americans and 200 million people world wide. The organizers are expecting anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 protesters to participate. Not only are there plenty of eyeballs to reach, five floats in the parade are sponsored by (wait for it) banks. Read all about their plans here.
The one rub? They need more money for signs and t-shirts.
Organizer Pete Thottem said he raised around $500 for banners. He put in another $2000 of his own money. "I'm here to fight the good fight and now I'm out of money," he said in a phone interview yesterday.
They need around $3000 more to buy all the supplies necessary. The parade is in a week and a half. Whatever you have to give will help. Even the smallest donation makes a difference and makes that difference in front of millions and millions of viewers. Thank you guys!
We, as always, will let you know just how much we raise and how the funds are spent. We've been talking to activists about what they will need in the coming year. It may not be pizza, but we'll let you know. We're also open to any ideas.
We'll be starting an Occupy America email list very soon.
I cannot tell you how many times my world view has changed by the many messages imprinted on my brain by viewing Rose Parade floats.
Say, at which General Assembly were the five demands of this # Occupy group voted on?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Hehehh!
200 million little brain tickles are probably worth the effort though. And no doubt lot of Washington politicians will be watching. I think the demands are pretty much the same ones that have been established for a while now, aren't they?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Hmmm ... ? "millions and millions of viewers" won't get to see something that will get intentionally cutaway by The Broadcaster ...
Just kicking it out there ..but: a very smart creative social media message ...a la ... will*I*am pimping Blackberrys at every concert with his bodysuit might do it ... $6,000 for banners .. .?
donate it to some of the 1.6 million little kids who are living in cars.
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
are you fucking kidding me??????
now, if the point was to pull an animal house and destroy the parade...that would be one thing
ive got a great idea....instead of donating so the ows can buy flowers for the 30 secs of time this float is gonna get on tv....give to your local food bank
friggin faux revolutionaries
REMEMBER SENATOR BLUTARSKI
It's not often i agree with you, but this i can get behind with.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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I'm in agreement...
Doing a thing to get a message out is one thing... but the message's out... It would be more effective, I think, to do a grand social gesture and make sure it's attributed to the gesturing party... at this point, this, to me, is window dressing, and I doubt it will convince any that need convincing.
JMHO, YMMV, of course.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
what a waste. already co-opted. the right will organize and throw eggs at them. it will be humiliating for them.
camera time? Just wait til they see the Occupy float. "Quick Bob, cut to commercials!"
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"It is strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three
years I had roses and I apologized to nobody. I shall die here. Every inch
of me shall perish... Except one. "
I hope the roses are Violet Carsons.
(If you have never read V for Vendetta then ... well ... you should, or at least just read Valerie's Letter:
http://www.netalive.org/topics/40702)
Cardboard, paint and an overhead projector. I've been doing it for years. A banner that costs $500 for printed vinyl can be made for oh... about fifty cents... using cardboard sheets duct-taped together, painted white and then lettered by tracing the image from the projector.
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