Ardee

Ardee
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Artwork for banner adapted from "Mister X," by William P. Marks, Vortex Comics • Blog Title from "Serenity" by Joss Whedon _________________________ A fiber artist making wool felt garments and gallery owner. Previously, I have been all these things: • architecture office manager • department store clerk • restaurant: waitress, bartender & barback, cashier, busboy, dishwasher, prep cook, line cook, manager • architecture student • engineering draftsman • graphic designer • advertising art director • magazine publisher • fanzine: publisher, editor, writer, photographer, designer • garage band manager • web designer & programmer • database (FM pro) developer • software trainer • non-profit organization staff member • ad salesman • fiber artist: weaver, spinner, tapestry weaver, dyer, feltmaker • reader • writer • sailor • runner • drinker, toker • big sister • oldest child • wife (2x) • swinging divorcee

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OCTOBER 29, 2011 12:43PM

Occupy Wall Street in the comfort of your own home UPDATED

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I'm just sharing this along - it showed up on my Facebook feed. But it's brilliant. 

 
Got it? FAR better than posting a message to Goldman Sachs CEO on OWS' website and having them throw it as a paper airplane at the corporate offices. I think we all have something to send those assholes.  And at the very least, it'll have them think twice about sending us the mountains of credit card offers that put so many of us into crippling debt. 
 
UPDATED:
ransackedroom just posted a new video with some further thoughts:
 

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ows, not my idea i'm just passing this along, brilliant idea

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Plus, the post office needs the money. May as well help them get it.
Tony Wang
October 29, 2011 06:48 PM
What a great idea! Thank you for passing it on. I receive several of these a week, and am annoyed that I have to spend time shredding them for safety from id theft in the recycle bin. Now I can "recycle" them in a different way, sending along other recyclable junk mail, like coupons from Bed and Bath and direct mail from the companies who make designer checks with kittens on them!
greenheron
October 29, 2011 06:53 PM
Thought the same thing when it passed through my FB feed yesterday. Brilliant.
Blue Roses
October 29, 2011 07:09 PM
For organizations I really disagree with, I look for metal plates that will fit. Or I glue the envelope to a brick.
old new lefty
October 29, 2011 08:15 PM
Seriously brilliant. Thanks for sharing.~r
Joan H.
October 29, 2011 09:20 PM
well this is something

still wasted tag

Strike OS -whoring – one tag only -OWS
ume
October 29, 2011 09:50 PM
thanks for posting this Ardee...I shared it on FB. It is a very bright idea!
Gary Justis
October 29, 2011 10:18 PM
Isn't this great? Will do.
Janice Wood
October 30, 2011 12:05 AM
I appreciate all of your comments and rates but since I didn't think it up, I'll just point towards the genius who did - ransackedroom, whoever he is - and hope that this great idea becomes a wave of popular protest. I really want this video to go viral so pass it on, and thanks! I also included the OWS tag, which I think was the point of Ume's comment (I think).
Ardee
October 30, 2011 12:12 AM
Oh yes! Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else!
cartouche
October 30, 2011 12:18 AM
Shared it on FB too. Thanks for catching this great idea & spreading it!
Dr. Susanne Freeborn
October 30, 2011 02:30 AM
Just wanted everyone to know that the views on this YouTube DOUBLED last night, since I posted this. Good Work everyone! Keep sharing!
Ardee
October 30, 2011 10:43 AM
Brilliant, but lets keep in mind the poor schmucks who actually have to open the envelopes.

Another tactic, if you have time, is to modify the contract for a card to your liking, just enough to pass by their radar, for example, change the interest rate and so-forth.. then MAKE A CERTIFIED PHOTOCOPY of your modified & signed agreement.

If your application is accepted, spend some $$ on it and when they try to collect the bill, ask them to produce the copy of the agreement you signed. Even if you don't use it for more than say, $5.00, it'll keep their high paid lawyers "occupied" while they work out how to handle it.
TriviaCompanion
October 30, 2011 11:03 AM
Trivia, among the possible benefits of this are: they have to pay the poor schmucks more for overtime, they have to hire more poor schmucks to open them, they have to hire a new supervisor, and the supervisor reports that they are getting masses of negative mail and they should re-think the idea of sending out credit card come-ons, and even better, the poor schmucks are so encouraged by all the support for OWS that they join the protest.
Ardee
October 30, 2011 11:42 AM
Ardee,

Yes! to having to pay them overtime and hire more supervisors!

I was just trying to make the point that someone has to open the things, so it's probably best not to include things that might give them a bad impression.

I like the idea of OWS fliers urging them to sign up, but roofing shingles, sand or things that make a mess (or worse) might be unproductive. I wonder how many of these clerks are actually in India or China?
TriviaCompanion
October 31, 2011 01:08 AM
Trivia, not too many. The mail goes to a US address so it's American workers opening up the mail. Even if they don't do anything other than toss the mail out, so what? They will have to hire more people to process the mail.

I got one from Citiskank and I wrote on it, Dear Mr. Pandit, since you're willing to talk to the Occupy Wall Street protestors does this mean you won't fight against the reinstatement of Glass Steagall?
Tony Wang
October 31, 2011 04:08 PM
Hey everyone, an update. The YouTube video had 62,000 viewers when I posted this and now it's up to 250,000! I'm not saying this post accomplished that but you all are helping to get the word out. THANKS for sharing it!
Ardee
November 01, 2011 10:02 AM
Bumping this another time, so people see the new vid. By the way, got my first credit card come-on today from Chase and sent it back in, feeling great about it!
Ardee
November 01, 2011 10:13 PM
holicow this is awesome. Why hasn't this ever been done before? This actually makes me excited to sort through junk mail...oh, I'm doing this for sure. These are the kind of ideas that we need.
Heidi Herron
November 04, 2011 04:32 PM
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
--upton sinclair

"One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas."
--victor hugo


occupy party reaches critical mass/seismic effect--now what?
vzn
November 11, 2011 09:10 PM