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<\/p>\nThere are two parties urging you to do this.<\/p>\n
One of the parties is Jerry Stiller:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Jerry Stiller in New York City for a book reading for Festivus. I could not navigate the copyright quagmire well enough to show you the actual ad<\/a>. \u00a0But Jerry is a paid spokesman for the 1%.<\/p>\n We, the 99%, urge you to move your money \u00a0out of any for-profit \u00a0bank and deposit it in a not-for-profit credit union. \u00a0It is not a radical idea, but is does fall within the scope of direct action broadly understood. I heard it proposed by two time gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross1<\/sup>. \u00a0There was one earlier attempt by Occupy_Boston<\/a>.2<\/sup>\u00a0 I was told that the banks simply refused to give them their money. \u00a0The current effort appears to be nationwide. Like many things associated with Occupy .*<\/strong>3<\/sup>, leadership is “dynamic and evolving<\/strong>.” \u00a0The Facebook incarnation lists Kristen Christian from LA as originator and it is called Bank Transfer Day<\/a>. \u00a0Occupy Boston lists \u00a0Move Your Money<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Move Your Money Project describes itself on the bottom of it’s home page as \u00a0Another Stadia Studio Project<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>It appears to be a for-profit venture from St. Louis MO. I’ll reserve judgement about whether that is a problem for what I hope will qualify as an anti-capitalist movement. Occupy Wall Street was started by Adbusters Magazine<\/a>. A reporter from the Wall Street Journal \u00a0took that to be proof that we are at heart a capitalist movement. Wikipedia paints a picture of Kalle Lasn<\/a> at the very least opposed to corporatocracy<\/strong>. And my new friend Liam tells me that Lasn is “the real deal.”<\/p>\n The project has produced a video which has very high productions values<\/a>. \u00a0Footage from “It’s a Wonderful Life” is intercut with footage from CNN and CSPAN from 2008. \u00a0It is well done, but I’m concerned that folks will buy into the idea that banks are the only way to aggregate capital but had strayed just a bit in Frank Capra’s time. By 1946, the New Deal and\/or World War II had mitigated the worst of the Depression. But in the early days of the Depression a lot of folks were more with Woody Guthrie in The Ballad of Pretty Boy \u00a0Floyd:<\/p>\n Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered And as through your life you travel, Despite it’s fairly moderate approach, I do think Move Your Money Day<\/strong> is worth doing for those that have some4<\/sup>. It is a way to support Occupy .*<\/a> It is not radical, but it may help. And perhaps it will inspire more dramatic efforts.<\/p>\n We, at Dewey Square and others sites around the nation and around the world would not still be in place were it not for the outpouring of community support. Thank you. I hope, fairly soon, to discuss what I have learned about Consensus, Contradiction, and Community.<\/p>\n To add some energy to this movement, some friends from Occupy Boston will leave Dewey Square on a tour of the Financial District Saturday morning Nov. 5 at 10:30 AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n I will be at Harvard guarding the library.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1<\/sup>Grace ran once on the Green-Rainbow Party ticket. It was the Massachusetts branch of the national Green Party. Green-Rainbow still exists, but is has been demoted to a ‘political designation’ due to low vote count. She ran again as a Democrat. \u00a0She gave an excellent talk at Community Church of Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2<\/sup>If you want to appear hipper than you really are, you can follow @Occupy_Boston on Twitter.<\/p>\n 3<\/sup>I have used the language of regular expressions in the title of a previous post<\/a>. I repeat the explanation.<\/strong> Regular expressions are a part of the Chomsky Hierarchy – Class 3 according to Wikipedia. I had used them for thirty years. In all that time, I never heard Chomsky\u2019s name connected with them even though I heard his name at anti-war rallies all the time. The dot is the symbol for any single character in the alphabet of the language. The asterisk indicates \u201czero or more occurences\u201d. Combined, they match any number of anythings i.e. all possible sentences of the language. Occupy is growing.<\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I’m not penniless, but close to it thanks to the recalcitrance of Mr. Leo Godwin of the Quincy office of the United States of Blackwater Revenue Service. Even without Leo, Harvard’s campaign to reduce the standard of living of it’s low wage workers would have me homeless<\/a> as I am. But what money I do have is in the Harvard University Employees Credit Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two parties urging you to do this. Jerry Stiller One of the parties is Jerry Stiller: Jerry Stiller in New York City for a book reading for Festivus. 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\n[Photo: Daniel Krieger<\/a> via Wikimedia Foundation]<\/p>\nCapital None<\/h2>\n
\nI’ve seen lots of funny men;
\nSome will rob you with a six-gun,
\nAnd some with a fountain pen.<\/p>\n
\nYes, as through your life you roam,
\nYou won’t never see an outlaw
\nDrive a family from their home.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n